Marines Suffer Most Cases of 2 Life-Threatening Conditions Related to Exercise and Heat, Report Finds The April issue of the Defense Department's Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, published last week, was focused entirely on...
Pentagon Panel Says Women Should Be Integrated into Marine Platoons as Part of Recruit Training The Marine Corps is the only service that is not gender-integrated at the lowest recruit training level, according to the...
3 Deaths in 3 Months: Parris Island Loses 2 Instructors, Clerk After String of Recent Losses The service said the causes of death are still under investigation and none of them occurred during combat or training.
Parris Island Marine Officer Arrest in Florida Is Latest Leadership Trouble for Training, Education Command Lt. Col. Michael Masters was booked into a Florida county jail on Saturday morning and charged with felony-level "abuse of a...
A Historic Female Unit Will Be Deactivated as the Marine Corps Continues Integrating the Force The Marine Corps has announced that it is deactivating a historic training battalion at Parris Island as a sign that it is...
Marine Drill Instructor Charged in Hot Weather Death of Recruit A Marine drill instructor at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, has been charged for his role in the...
Marine Corps Considers Abandoning Parris Island Amid Rising Extreme Weather Threats A string of recent reports has predicted that Parris Island will face increasingly frequent and ferocious hurricanes, floods...
Marine Recruit Dies at Parris Island -- the Second Death in 3 Months The recruit had been with the 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, Recruit Training Regiment.
Marine Corps Identifies Recruit Who Died During 'Crucible' Event at Boot Camp Pfc. Dalton Beals died during the "Crucible," according to a Marine Corps spokesperson, who added that the cause of death is...
Marine Recruit Dies During 'Crucible' Event at Boot Camp An online fundraiser described Pfc. Dalton Beals as "a son, a brother, a friend of many, an incredible athlete and a United...
For Decades, Recipients Were Honored with Purple Hearts Made During WWII. This Company Now Forges New Medals. For decades, recipients of the Purple Heart were honored with medals that had been forged during World War II, leftover stock...
Officers with Higher Rank Get Better Care than Those with Lower Ranks at Military Hospitals, Study Finds A look at 1.5 million emergency room visits in the military health system shows that, in addition to racial bias, disparities...
Another Dead End for Airborne Lasers: Air Force Scraps Effort to Mount Directed-Energy Weapon on Fighter Jet The Self-Protect High-Energy Laser Demonstrator, or SHiELD, was envisioned as a laser weapon mounted on fighter jets such as...
'He Was Great Before He Came to Us': Air Force Leaders Speak at Funeral of Florida Airman Killed by Police The military connection and the attendance and participation by Air Force officials made the service for Roger Fortson an...
Military Ospreys Can't Fly More Than 30 Minutes from Landing Airfield Months After Grounding Lifted Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy V-22 Ospreys were all given the green light to fly again in early March and have been slowly...