Arriving at Basic: Drill Instructors and Reception Arriving at base is the moment you've been waiting for. It's the point where your life, as you know it, is now over.
Female DIs Who Served at Marines' All-Male Boot Camp Say They Were Brought Out for VIP Visits, But Limited in Training Recruits The Marine Corps hit a milestone when three women completed drill instructor school at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego.
Fewer Military Recruits Dropped Out of Boot Camp in 2020. Here's Why Military entry-level training, like most things in 2020, has been anything but normal this year.
The Marines Are Paying a University $2M to Study the Best Way to Run Coed Boot Camp The Marine Corps will be getting an outside opinion on how best to train men and women together at boot camp.
Marines 'Looking at All Options' When It Comes to Future Boot Camp Locations The service is "looking at all options" in response to a congressional mandate to make training gender-integrated.
Marines Weigh Closing Parris Island and San Diego to Open New Coed Boot Camp The Marine Corps is considering a plan in which it could funnel all recruits to a new base.
'Ain't Gonna Happen!' Politicians Vow to 'Fight Like Hell' to Protect Parris Island from Closure The mere possibility of the Marine Corps shaking up where it trains new recruits has drawn swift backlash.
Female Marine Drill Instructors Are Headed to All-Male San Diego Boot Camp Earlier this month, the Marine Corps released some of its plans for ending gender segregation at boot camp.
Here's the Marine Corps' Plan to End Gender Segregation at Boot Camp All-male recruit companies trained solely by men will be made "obsolete," according to a Marine Corps memo.
Hundreds of Marine Recruits Have Now Tested Positive for COVID-19 at Boot Camp Their symptoms from COVID-19 have been so mild that it hasn't disrupted training, a two-star general said this week.
Naval Academy Staff Removed Display on Female Jewish Graduates for Hegseth Visit The U.S. Naval Academy has confirmed that officials there removed items commemorating female Jewish graduates from a historic...
'The Greatest Soldier in American History' Took a Tank Round to the Leg and Kept Fighting The only reason Matt Urban didn't receive the Medal of Honor for single-handedly breaking an entire battalion through France...
My Black Roommate Opened My Eyes to an Air Force I Didn’t Know Existed I realized I had been sheltered from much of the world's ugliness and was more than a little naive. I thought the problems I...
4 US Soldiers Who Died in Lithuania Swamp When Their Vehicle Sank Are Identified The recovery operation for the bodies and the M88 was an intricate and arduous weeklong process, enlisting the expertise of...
How Comic Legend Mel Brooks Defused Land Mines During World War II Brooks participated in the Battle of the Bulge -- Germany's final major offensive on the Western Front -- but to his...