Math is hard, but in the era of the smartphone, most of us can mitigate our lack of arithmetic skills with the digital abacuses burning holes in our pockets. As such, the Defense Department is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "How did someone like me who barely passed the ASVAB test end up here?" Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Carlos Ruiz said during ...

Since 1968, the military has used the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, or ASVAB, to assess all incoming recruits. This single test predicts academic skills and determines what military ...

Army Spc. Amber Abshire, center, a motor transport operator with the 593rd Sustainment Brigade's 513th Transportation Company, shares a light moment with a counterpart while solving math problems ...

The Army is eyeing new minimum academic standards for college students in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), but ...

Garrett Andrews is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Political Science at Portland Community College where he teaches State and Local Government. Veronica Beagle is the managing editor ...

Defense Department restrictions on civilian travel mean that some potential recruits will have to travel farther to take the military’s entrance exam, as remote testing centers cut back hours or close ...

All branches of the U.S. Armed Forces require candidates to take certain tests and exams prior to signing an enlistment contract. One such test is the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, ...

U.S. Division-North soldiers deployed to Contingency Operating Site Warrior take a basic math and vocabulary quiz in preparation for the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) test during ...

The Marine Corps is engaged in a multi-year pilot program to determine whether the standardized test the military has used since 1968 might be swapped out for a more holistic way to capture troops' ...