Regardless of their primary job, Marines from every corner of the Corps can apply for special duty assignments as recruiters, drill instructors, combat instructors or Marine security guards.

In an effort to "de-emphasize gender," a new academic report recommends that the United States Marine Corps boot camp stop using "gender-specific salutations" for drill instructors. The 738-page ...

The first five minutes of a recruit’s training in the United States Marine ... methods. For drill instructors like Mlachak, it is about the future of the Marine Corps. “I wanted to be a ...

The day that recruits meet the drill instructors who will transform them from “nasty” civilians into United States Marines. At Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island in South Carolina ...

An academic report is recommending the U.S. Marine Corps get rid of "gender-specific salutations" for drill instructors. The report, commissioned in 2020 by the Corps from the University of ...

Orville Richard Burrell, aka “Shaggy,” during his Marine Corps tour, sometime between 1988 and 1992. (DoD Courtesy of Orville Richard Burrell, aka “Shaggy”) "Drill instructors used to put ...