Recruit Anna J. Hereth, Platoon 4026, November Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, practices a falling during a martial arts training session in May 2015 at Parris Island, South Carolina. (Sgt.

For the first time since its opening in 1921, Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego has begun training male and female recruits together in an integrated unit. Sixty female recruits arrived at the ...

Four male platoons graduated from Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in South Carolina as part of a battalion that -- until now -- has trained only women. Papa Company, 4th Recruit Training ...

Unlike other services, the Marines have not fully integrated female recruits. For the first time in its history, the Marine Corps will integrate female and male platoons during boot camp. Unlike the ...

The previously all-female 4th Recruit Training Battalion has graduated four of its first-ever male platoons alongside two female platoons and included the first male drill instructors assigned within ...

WASHINGTON >> The U.S. Marine Corps for the first time is eyeing a plan to let women attend what has been male-only combat training in Southern California, as officials work to quash recurring ...