Marine Corps

As the Pentagon grapples with how to integrate women into all jobs in combat, the Marine Corps is considering something new: Boosting how heavy it allows women to be so that they are able to bulk up in the gym to carry heavy loads more easily. Commandant Gen. Robert Neller, the service’s top officer, told […]

The footage, from 2010, shows Marine scout snipers as they perform counterinsurgency operations.

This footage shows Marines in heavy combat as part of Operation Western Storm in 2011.

News has been released that a Marine commanding officer, Lt. Col. Edward Pavelka, was relieved of command just three days before two CH-53 helicopters crashed into the Pacific Ocean.

Watch Force Recon Marines conduct wet special patrol insertion and extraction (SPIE) training.

Maj. Gen. Joseph Osterman, commanding general of MARSOC, told Military.com the command has already received several requests from female Marines to enter the assessment and selection pipeline to become a critical skills operator. While Osterman could not specify how many women had applied, he said the first female applicant surfaced only days after the Jan. […]

The receiving drill instructor stepped on the bus and “welcomed” us to Parris Island, and instructed us to fall in on the yellow footprints painted in formation on a street running parallel to a dimly lit sidewalk.

One of my favorite memories from Iraq is of an ominous message written on a weapons clearing barrel outside of the chow tent in Sahl Sinjar. It brought a smile to my face each time I got in line as I pictured the poor soul who had that negligent discharge.

As previously reported, the Marine Corps recently released the names of the 12 missing Marines that were part of a helicopter crash. After five days of searching to no avail, the decision has been made to change the focus from search and rescue to “recovery and salvage”. A massive search for 12 Marines who were […]

Take a look at this video spotlight on some of the men from the Marine Corps’ 1st EOD Company.

In an ongoing effort to honor fallen Marine Sgt. Rafael Peralta, a member of Congress has requested that the current Commandant of the Marine Corps re-submit a nomination for the Medal of Honor. In Iraq 2004, Peralta was shot in the head during a room clearance right before a frag grenade was tossed in by […]

We have all served with someone that was so incompetent you can’t believe they made it through basic training – let alone life. If you have not served, maybe it is someone you work with. For me, Lance Corporal “McLovin” was that person. He was weak, timid, irresponsible, and incapable of leading or even following. […]