Story by Airman 1st Class Thalia Bonte | Joint Base Langley-Eustis | 07.28.2025
JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. – For U.S. Air Force Capt. Zachary Darroch, Air Combat Command Directorate of Intelligence chief of targets, Brazilian jiu jitsu isn’t just a martial art, it’s a way of life that’s shaped his career, mindset and approach to service in the U.S. Air Force....
Story by Sgt. Tanner Dibble | 13th Armored Corps Sustainment Command (13th ESC) | 04.01.2025
Dibble, Tanner R SGT USARMY 13 ESC (USA) 2:03 PM (5 minutes ago) to Tanner, me FORT CAVAZOS, TEXAS — Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F) has taken over the previous iteration of Physical training, known as Physical Readiness Training (PRT) , and Fort Cavazos offers a program that deep dives into the difference. The Commander’s Master Fitness Course serves as a bridge for military units......
Story by Staff Sgt. Cameron Christensen, Spc. Johnathan Jessop and 1st Lt. Joseph Proctor | 372nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 09.09.2023
U.S. Army Soldiers of the 304th Military Police Battalion, based in Nashville, Tennessee spent their Battle Assembly weekend on September 9th and 10th, 2023, working on mind and body readiness....
Story by André B. Sobocinski, Historian | U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery | 07.18.2022
Today’s U.S. Navy espouses a “culture of fitness,” and “physical readiness,” but this was not always the case. In the early 1900s, many including the president himself, Theodore Roosevelt, were appalled by the lack of physical conditioning in the Navy. This is the story of how President Roosevelt and the Navy Medical Department established the physical readiness requirement....
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Kelvin Ringold | 13th Armored Corps Sustainment Command (13th ESC) | 05.04.2020
FORT HOOD — Readiness in the Army involves having highly trained, disciplined and fit Soldiers. The COVID-19 outbreak has changed the way Soldiers and leaders train, but maintaining physical readiness is a no-fail mission leaders can’t afford to lose sight of....
Story by Russell Toof | Medical Readiness Command, Europe | 05.01.2020
As health protection measures around the world remain elevated due to the coronavirus outbreak, how does someone maintain physical readiness while adhering to social distancing guidelines?...
Story by Sgt. Andrew McNeil | 3rd Infantry Division | 04.21.2020
The sun peeked over the horizon illuminating the asphalt as Soldiers began to line up into two columns one on each side of the road. The Soldiers diligently made sure to maintain a minimum distance of 6-feet from each other. The columns gradually moved closer to the starting line as a voice yelled out “GO” every thirty seconds....
Story by Tech. Sgt. Steph Sawyer | 142nd Wing | 03.26.2020
As most of the world is practicing social distancing, and in some cases, self-quarantine, many Americans are spending much of their days at home, working and living outside of their typical routines. On Monday, March 23, 2020, Oregon Governor Kate Brown issued a ‘stay at home’ order in an effort to further limit the transmission of COVID-19. Earlier this month, the U.S. Air Force......
