In quiet shift, Marines allow mixed-gender DI teams to train recruits
A typical integrated team will have three DIs of one gender and a fourth of the opposite gender, with most featuring three male instructors and one female.
By Hope Hodge Seck
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Female recruits now shipping equally to MCRDs Parris Island, San Diego
The Marine Corps has hit its goal of assigning women to its boot camps the same way it assigns men.
By Hope Hodge Seck
JBLM helicopter rescue unit at it again with ‘Lunch Counter’ hoist
The soldiers of Yakima Dustoff are no strangers to challenging rescues.
By Davis Winkie
Ruff rescue! Dog saved by Coast Guard after 300-foot tumble from cliff
The Coast Guard rescues a dog that fell off a cliff and injured herself in Oregon.
Got a ticket to ride: Alaskan soldiers offered free flights home
11th Airborne Division soldiers are being authorized one round-trip ticket to their home of record now through the end of the year.
Florida center says exercise, community help veterans heal old injury
One 81-year-old Vietnam vet has gone from a walker to a cane and hopes to jog 3 miles soon.
Papa Jake survived D-Day on Omaha Beach. Now he’s a TikTok star.
World War II veteran Jake Larson is best known on social media under the name “Papa Jake.”
Virginia nonprofit expands mental health services for military members
Trails of Purpose provides therapeutic care for service members, using horses for assisted psychotherapy and mental health education.
By Caitlyn Burchett, The Virginian-Pilot
Gen. Milley awarded France’s highest medal of honor
French President Emmanuel Macron awarded U.S. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley the order of Commander of the Legion of Honor.
By Tara Copp
Navy selects first active duty female gunner’s mate for master chief
Senior Chief Gunner’s Mate Jessica Saunders, who enlisted in the Navy in 2002, screened for E-9 on May 23.
By Diana Stancy
Advice from a Marine who smashed 3 kettlebell-swing world records
Sgt. Maj. Steven Burkett has even swung some kettlebells with then-Commandant Gen. Robert Neller.
Army bomb tech, three other troops dominate Food Network’s ‘Chopped’
A civilian chef didn't know what to do with the powdered eggs in round three.
By Davis Winkie