I Thought the Marine Corps Would Offer a Better Life. It Was Another Place I Didn't Belong. "The Marine Corps had not been an escape. I did not find belonging or safety within its ranks."
Military Bases Assessing Damage After Hurricane Helene's Brutal Winds, Storm Surge Hit Southeast More than 4,000 members of the National Guard had been deployed to help out in the wake of the storm, which clocked winds...
Marines Suffer Most Cases of 2 Life-Threatening Conditions Related to Exercise and Heat, Report Finds The April issue of the Defense Department's Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, published last week, was focused entirely on...
Pentagon Panel Says Women Should Be Integrated into Marine Platoons as Part of Recruit Training The Marine Corps is the only service that is not gender-integrated at the lowest recruit training level, according to the...
3 Deaths in 3 Months: Parris Island Loses 2 Instructors, Clerk After String of Recent Losses The service said the causes of death are still under investigation and none of them occurred during combat or training.
Parris Island Marine Officer Arrest in Florida Is Latest Leadership Trouble for Training, Education Command Lt. Col. Michael Masters was booked into a Florida county jail on Saturday morning and charged with felony-level "abuse of a...
A Historic Female Unit Will Be Deactivated as the Marine Corps Continues Integrating the Force The Marine Corps has announced that it is deactivating a historic training battalion at Parris Island as a sign that it is...
Marine Drill Instructor Charged in Hot Weather Death of Recruit A Marine drill instructor at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, has been charged for his role in the...
Marine Corps Considers Abandoning Parris Island Amid Rising Extreme Weather Threats A string of recent reports has predicted that Parris Island will face increasingly frequent and ferocious hurricanes, floods...
Marine Recruit Dies at Parris Island -- the Second Death in 3 Months The recruit had been with the 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, Recruit Training Regiment.
Army Set to Overhaul Length of Noncommissioned Officer Academies to Cut Costs The Advanced Leader Course, or ALC, and Senior Leader Course, or SLC, would be compressed from eight to 16 weeks down to just...
Air Force Bomb Techs Will Take Gender-Neutral Fitness Tests Beginning Next Month The changes come after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered in a March memo that all combat arms positions "must be sex...
Drill Sergeant Under Investigation After Having Soldiers Do Push-Ups Under MAGA Flag The Army has launched an investigation after a drill sergeant posted a video showing soldiers being hazed beneath a MAGA flag...
Trump's Controversial Pick for Pentagon Personnel Chief Confirmed by Senate Tata is a retired Army brigadier general whose post-military career includes serving as a school district administrator in...
Taller Boots, Shorter Eyelashes: Air Force Releases Stricter Uniform Guidelines The new set of rules comes amid a widespread push started earlier this year by Air Force leadership to place more emphasis on...
![One Station Unit Training at Fort Benning, Georgia](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-07/mil-army-training-osut-fort-benning-1800.jpg?itok=SV_PURDB "Trainees experience day of One Station Unit Training, known as the "First 100 Yards," June 27, 2025 at Sandhill, on Fort Benning, Georgia. (U.S. Army photo by Patrick A. Albright)")
