The Marine Corps has received the findings of a detailed independent study on gender-integration at boot camp. But Marine leaders say the service may not be able to implement one of the study’s top ...

Recruit division commanders, known as RDCs, are the drill sergeants of the United States Navy. Before they train Navy recruits at boot camp, future RDCs must graduate from Continuation School, or C ...

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Editor's note: This story was first published at 6:41 p.m. EDT on June 29, 2016. More than a dozen drill instructors at Marine Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, are under investigation for ...

Men stepping onto the famous yellow footprints at the Marine Corps' historically all-male recruit depot on the West Coast will soon be greeted by female drill instructors. For the first time ever, the ...

The Marine Corps is the military service that still operates gender-separated training at the platoon level. (Sgt. Daniel Wetzel/Marine Corps) The Marine Corps has received the findings of a detailed ...