Narrator: This is Army boot camp. Before they join the United States Army, all recruits have to graduate from a 22-week program known as One Station Unit Training, also known as OSUT.

So, as fad workouts increasingly borrow Army terms like "boot camp," actual basic training is starting to look a bit like a new-age fitness camp -- but with harsh words, severe haircuts and firearms.

Trainees like these, who wouldn't have made the cut due to poor test scores or struggles with pushups a decade ago, now make up nearly one quarter of the U.S. Army's new recruits.

A new Army program that gives lower-performing 90 days of fitness or academic instruction before boot camp has already helped whip new soldiers into shape and shore up the military’s ranks.

The COVID-19 crisis is changing the way future Army soldiers are trained at the Fort Benning military base near Columbus, Ga.

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Retired US Army drill sergeant Lamont Christian rates US military boot-camp scenes in movies and TV shows for realism. Christian breaks down the early stages of boot camp in "Full Metal Jacket ...

News Military Branches Army The Army will grow its pre-boot camp program after initial success "We have more Americans that want to do it than we can accommodate." Nicholas Slayton ...

Nothing prepares you for push-up and pull-up military fitness tests quite like doing push-ups and pull-ups to failure during your workouts.

Retired US Army drill sergeant Lamont Christian rates boot-camp scenes in movies and TV shows, such as "Full Metal Jacket," for realism.