Marine Corps tradition discourages drill instructors from showing emotion, other than intense acuity or anger, while around recruits. They are meant to be models of peak physical fitness — and ...

Marine Corps drill instructors are a national symbol of discipline. But for some, their imposing persona belies a dark reality. BEAUFORT, S.C. — Tatiana Sowell held her youngest child as she ...

A Marine Corps Sergeant, also an NCO, can serve as drill Instructors in charge of a recruit training platoon, the first rank able to do so. 24. Second Lieutenant (2ndLt) — pay grade: O-1 ...

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 ...

Female drill instructors used to have a scarlet cord that signified their role, whereas male drill instructors had a campaign cover. When that was changed, female drill instructors wanted to keep ...

A U.S. Marine Corps drill instructor marches a platoon of recruits pass a crowd gathering to view the Iwo Jima Monument at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., March 14, 2016.

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 training exercise on ...

Suddenly, Jones Beach Island becomes Parris Island, as Costigan — who may have missed his calling as a Marine Corps drill instructor — begins a series of call-and-response chants that are ...

Kevin McDugle’s memoir about the two years (1994-96) that he was a Marine Corps drill instructor at the world-famous Parris Island military base in South Carolina is briskly paced, compelling, ...

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 ...

Recruits execute drill movements during final drill practice at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, Sept. 12, 2022. (Lance Cpl. Bradley Williams/Marine Corps) When Lt. Gen ...