The Marine Corps has made the combat instructor job a special duty assignment once more, effectively allowing those instructors to sidestep the sometimes-dreaded recruiter or drill instructor jobs.

Staff Sgt. Steven Smiley’s fate is in the hands of an eight-person jury. Closing arguments in the Marine drill instructor’s negligent homicide trial came Friday. The trial put the Marine training ...

(Parris Island) Jan. 24, 2006 - Marine Staff Sargeant Nayda Lopez had a hearing Tuesday in the trial for the drowning death of Jason Tharp. WIS was at the Parris Island training pool the day before ...

Four Marines were named the top performers across the service’s special duty ranks, which includes drill instructors, recruiters, combat instructors and Marine security guards. The four were ...

An eight-person military jury took two hours Friday to find Staff Sgt. Steven Smiley not guilty of negligent homicide and four other counts in the death of Marine recruit Dalton Beals in 2021. 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 ...

A Marine drill instructor at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, has been charged for his role in the death of Pfc. Dalton Beals, 19, on June 4, 2021. Maj. Philip Kulczewski, a ...

An academic report is recommending the U.S. Marine Corps get rid of "gender-specific salutations" for drill instructors. The report, commissioned in 2020 by the Corps from the University of Pittsburgh ...

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 14 -- A Marine boot camp drill instructor was convicted Wednesday of abusing recruits under his command. A military jury found Sgt. Jerrod M. Glass guilty of cruelty and maltreatment, ...

An eight-person military jury took two hours Friday to find Staff Sgt. Steven Smiley not guilty of negligent homicide and four other counts in the death of Marine recruit Dalton Beals in 2021. The ...