The suicides, two by gunshot and one by hanging, called into question the whole entrenched psychology of Marine Corps recruit training, which was based on a traditionally grim regimen of rote ...

SAN DIEGO — Recruits piled off buses this week to the urgent shouts and barks of Marine Corps drill instructors ... the men — including the grueling “Reaper” hike at Camp Pendleton ...

Julie Martinez, a drill ... Marine while standing on top of the infamous Reaper at Camp Pendleton, California. The integration process will require the Corps to field more female drill instructors ...

The Marine Corps has made the combat instructor job a special duty assignment once more, effectively allowing those instructors to sidestep the sometimes-dreaded recruiter or drill instructor jobs.

Steven Smiley not guilty of negligent homicide and four other counts in the death of Marine recruit Dalton ... of a general order that forbids drill instructors from calling recruits names.

By Michael Levenson A military jury has found that a Marine Corps drill instructor was not guilty of negligent homicide and other charges in the death of a 19-year-old recruit during a grueling ...