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The Marine Corps has received the findings of a detailed independent study on gender-integration at boot camp. But Marine leaders say the service may not be able to implement one of the study’s top ...

Recruit division commanders, known as RDCs, are the drill sergeants of the United States Navy. Before they train Navy recruits at boot camp, future RDCs must graduate from Continuation School, or C ...

Editor's note: This story was first published at 6:41 p.m. EDT on June 29, 2016. More than a dozen drill instructors at Marine Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, are under investigation for ...

The yelling, the sweat, the thousand-yard stares — these movies either nailed the chaos or missed it. Every service member has a boot camp story — the sand, the blisters, the broken sleep, the recruit ...

Experience Day 2 of rigorous Korean military training as English recruits confront intense physical and mental challenges.

CONROE -- A drill instructor accused of assaulting two teen-age girls at the Montgomery County juvenile boot camp was back on the job Tuesday, pending a grand jury investigation. Sgt. Keisha Cotton, ...

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 ...