U.S. Marine recruits push through a combat endurance course at Parris Island, South Carolina. The course is part of Recruit ...

Unlike the other branches, Marine recruits qualify with the same M16 rifle they've been carrying around with them throughout the entire basic training course. Therefore, you should treat your rifle ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...