Corps updates physical fitness test standards for combat MOS Marines
Updates include sex-neutral requirements for all combat MOS Marines to score a minimum of 210 out of a possible 300.
By Bridget Craig
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Attention, ladies: You can now wear the iconic Marine Corps boat cloak
The few and the proud just got a bit more debonaire.
By Hope Hodge Seck
A Marine takes over as senior enlisted leader of US Africa Command
A Marine sergeant major will take over as the senior enlisted leader with U.S. Africa Command.
By Philip Athey
MCRD San Diego’s Facebook suspended after name changed to ‘Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’
What a truly a delightful conundrum.
By J.D. Simkins
Marine lance corporal dies after late December single-car accident in Texas
The Marine most recently was a member of Wounded Warrior Battalion–West.
By Philip Athey
For the love of OPSEC, put your phone away
Lectures of personal electronics use and operational security continue to fall on deaf ears.
By J.D. Simkins
$30,000 bonuses for former reserve pilots to return as Corps tries fill aviation gaps
The bonus is for qualified aviators who agree to return to the active reserve component for 36 months in order to fill “critical aviation shortfalls."
By Philip Athey
Marine vet Duncan Hunter resigns from Congress after corruption conviction
Republican U.S. Rep. Duncan D. Hunter submitted his resignation Tuesday, one month after pleading guilty to a corruption charge, leaving vacant one of the GOP's few remaining House seats in heavily Democratic California.
New in 2020: Silver earrings, male Marines carrying umbrellas
Female Marines have long been allowed to carry an umbrella — in their left hand so that they are still capable of saluting properly.
By Philip Athey