The first integrated company of male and female recruits will graduate from Marine Corps boot camp on Friday. The service will now assess the company's training results to determine whether the ...

The corps is under a congressional mandate to integrate boot camp in line with the other services. Critics say it isn't moving fast enough. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Jan. 2, 2023.) ...

The Marine Corps is having women train with men at Parris Island, South Carolina. About 50 female recruits are among the approximately 300 who began the boot camp Friday.

Until now, all female recruits have attended boot camp at the Marines’ East Coast training base in Parris Island, S.C. It also has been home to the occasional integrated recruit company.

In 2019, Congress ordered the San Diego boot camp to integrate women into its training battalions by 2028. That process is already underway at the Marines’ Parris Island, S.C., depot, and until ...

The Marine Corps is an infantry-centric force that traditionally contained the smallest percentage of women, currently about 8%, within its active-duty ranks. Women make up about 16% of the ...

A group of female recruits completed Marine boot camp in San Diego this spring - the first time the Corps has trained women outside of Parris Island, S.C. But there are no immediate plans to make ...

In a Jan. 1 memo to Marine Commandant Gen. Robert Neller, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus requested a "detailed plan" on how the service will fully integrate its boot camp and Officer Candidate School.

Lance Cpl. Falande Joachin fires the M4 Modular Weapon System during a zeroing exercise at Range 106, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, Feb. 24, 2015.

More than half of female Marines in boot camp can’t do three pullups, the minimum standard that was supposed to take effect with the new year, prompting the Marine Corps to delay the requirement ...

Women will attend boot camp at San Diego Marine Corps Recruit Depot for first time in history The Corps’ West Coast recruit depot traditionally has trained enlisted men born west of the ...