Capt. Kelsey Hastings became the Platoon Commander for the U.S. Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon, the first female to hold ...

Marine Corps drill instructors are a national symbol of discipline. But for some, their imposing persona belies a dark ...

The Marine Corps quietly directed its recruit depots to integrate male and female drill instructor teams at the platoon level in late 2023, and now the service is full steam ahead with the effort ...

Don Harris went ashore on Iwo Jima, where he and his fellow Marines faced one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War.

Drill instructor: Do you get nosebleeds a lot? Recruit: No, sir. Narrator: It's just one of several tests recruits complete during their final challenge of boot camp, a 54-hour gauntlet called the ...

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story was originally published on Feb. 7, 2019. More than a century after thousands of Marine Corps recruits, drill instructors, and officers formed up ...

Ahh! Narrator: This Marine Corps recruit isn't actually injured. Recruit: My leg! Ahhh! Narrator: He's playing the role of a wounded Marine during a simulated casualty evacuation. Drill instructor ...

The US Marine Corps continues to grapple with hazing at its storied recruit training center at Parris Island in South Carolina, where the service punished at least eight drill instructors and a ...

Marines can now reenlist early, some for up to 15 years In an interview with Marine Corps Times shortly after completing the final Crucible ... he made sure that the drill instructors knew he ...

Logan Sowell’s suicide in July 2021 is one of at least seven in the past five years involving the Marine Corps’ stable of drill instructors, according to military casualty reports obtained ...