A recent Marine Corps basic training graduate who once weighed 290 pounds lost more than 100 pounds over two years to meet ...

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 ...

Marines are known as amphibious warriors based on their ability to assault fortified islands by sea. During past amphibious assaults, some Americans have lost their lives by drowning in the surf. To ...

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 ...

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 old military stereotype that lieutenants are inept at land navigation has circulated for ages. But a recent incident at The Basic School — a course for newly commissioned officers aboard Quantico, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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A Marine recruit died early Sunday after collapsing during routine basic training, officials said. Pvt. Neal Edwards IV of St. Clair, Mo., collapsed after negotiating an obstacle course Saturday ...