Members of the United States Marine Corps spoke with Jacksonville Morning News to share insights into life as a Marine and ...

Women were formally integrated into ground combat units in 2015, but now, more than a decade later, the Pentagon has recently ...

SAN DIEGO - Marine 1st Lt. Brandy Soublet is about as far from the war front as possible at her desk in the California desert, but she's on the front lines of an experiment that could one day put ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among the ...

In March 2025, the U.S. Department of Defense removed a webpage reporting the history of "Golden Girls" actor Bea Arthur enlisting in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve during World War II. For at least ...

Until 1918, there were no women in Marine Corps except wives and daughters. It took the entrance of the U.S. into the first World War to open service in the Marine Corps to women, and even then we ...

Penny Hardiman joined the Marines in 1982. “I was up for a new adventure,” she said. Friends and relatives doubted that Kelli Ten Hulzen could survive military basic training. So the new high school ...

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 ...

Cpl. Raquel Mathieu is part of a unique experiment to help the U.S. Marines determine the role of women in combat. Photo: Jeremy M. Lange for The Wall Street Journal CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.—In combat, the ...

The few and the proud just got a bit more debonaire. For the first time since its authorization for wear in the 1800s, both male and female Marines whose rank or officer status qualifies them can wear ...