When Justin Kelley graduates today from Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, he’ll be a gunnery sergeant.

(Staff Sgt Brendan Custer/Marine Corps) When Justin Kelley left the Air ... a boot camp “dad,” Kelley said he made sure that the drill instructors knew he respected them.

But for Marines of a certain age, a 2008 miniseries tops them all. “Generation Kill” took audiences beyond the Silent Drill Platoon ... earn their seat in a Marine Corps Humvee.

Marines conducted a complex at-sea readiness rehearsal for combat with the service's new amphibious combat vehicle for the first time while their comrades worked on coastal defense training with ...

Way back when I was going through Marine recruit training at Parris Island, our senior drill instructors had ... qualify were reviled throughout the Marine Corps. And in the practice rounds ...

Zembiec Award for outstanding leadership in the Marine Forces Special Operations Command, for his role as team commander ... 235 out of 300); an abandon ship drill; a 300-meter swim; an eleven ...

Much of what the Department of Defense calls wargaming is not actually wargaming and this abuse of nomenclature has real consequences. Wargame-like activities, if conducted properly, are necessary and ...

And with military personnel management ... time simply to ensure personnel were ready for a drill weekend. The unit’s medical and dental team, they said, worked for two full weeks to review ...

French shipping major CMA CGM is seeking marine ... 4,000 military staff took to the same body of water for one of northern Europe's largest naval exercises.The 12-day 'Freezing Winds' drill ...

trumpet player Al Hirt and the U.S. Marine Corps Drill Team. 1971: Florida A&M band *1970: Carol Channing, Marguerite Piazza, Doc Severinsen, Lairen & Tara, Al Hirt, Lionel Hampton, Southern ...