Unlike the other branches, Marine recruits qualify with the same M16 rifle they've been carrying around with them throughout the entire basic training course. Therefore, you should treat your rifle ...

All Marine basic training graduates get 10 days of leave immediately after basic training graduation. Enjoy your 10 days off because after your R&R, you have to report to one of the Marine Corps ...

Unmanned aerial systems are becoming so important to military operations that the Marine Corps is adding UAS training to its basic curriculum for new officers. Thirteen instructors at The Basic School ...

Private First Class Kyle N. Diakun, 20, son of Michael and Joan Diakun, Mountain Top, graduated from United States Marine Corps boot camp at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina.

The school that prepares newly commissioned or appointed officers in the basics of being a rifle platoon commander has been stricken with a handful of COVID-19 cases. Maj. Joshua Benson, a Marine ...

The recruits are starving and exhausted by the time they crest The Reaper, the last hill at the end of a grim 72-hour stretch of basic training known as The Crucible. By this point in their 13-week ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X SARATOGA SPRINGS >> More than 300 U.S. Marine Corps recruits got a taste Saturday of what could be ...

The push to eliminate all gender segregation at Marine Corps camps has more momentum than ever, but analysts and military insiders say there remain major real-world, physical roadblocks to coed basic ...

A U.S. Marine MV-22 Osprey takes off after Marine Special Operations School students infiltrate their objective during Field Training Exercise Raider Spirit, May 1, 2017, at Camp Lejeune, N.C. (Senior ...