ABOARD JS OSUMI (Reuters) - Hikari Maruyama, Runa Kurosawa and Sawaka Nakano are part of an elite force: Japan's Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade (ARDB), meant to lead assaults from the sea in a ...

WASHINGTON -- For the first time in Marine Corps history, women are attending a previously male-only combat training course in California. Marine Capt. Joshua Pena said 40 female Marine students ...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Marine Corps for the first time is eyeing a plan to let women attend what has been male-only combat training in Southern California as officials work to quash recurring problems ...

The Marines have inched grudgingly toward integration. Marine leaders flatly opposed allowing women in combat jobs, but Carter dismissed their arguments. Many Corps officers stridently defended the ...

Rhonda Martin found herself in the Marine Corps office accidentally, originally looking to apply for the Peace Corps.

One survey proposal would add the tanker jacket, pictured here, to the sea bag of uniform items new enlisted Marines receive after boot camp. (Cpl. Debra S. Sainer/Marine Corps) For the first time in ...

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — The Marines in a recent “cultural-awareness” class scribbled notes as the instructor coached them on do’s and don’ts when talking to villagers in Afghanistan: Don’t start by ...

Last week, three women graduated from the Marine infantry training course. They're the first female candidates to pass it. The list of things women supposedly can't do is evaporating. This is what ...

BARCHA, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Tiffany Jones chews tobacco, spitting the juice into the Afghan desert as she talks, and wears her M-16 automatic rifle slung across her ...

RICHMOND, Ky. — In addition to shipping and receiving tons of ammunition and non-lethal combat supplies, the Blue Grass Army Depot trains reserve forces, an integral part of America's Joint ...