He also earned the Drill Instructor Ribbon with two bronze stars. When asked to reflect on his 30-year military career, Foshee was clear. “That’s probably the easiest question to answer,” he said. “I ...

A study completed by the Marine Corps in 2019 found that during the previous decade, 29 drill instructors either ended their lives or openly acknowledged they had contemplated doing so — an ...

Marine Corps drill instructors are a national symbol of discipline. But for some, their imposing persona belies a dark reality. ... And then there is the sense of having an image to uphold.

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 drill instructor assigned with Mike Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, corrects recruits conducting close order drill on the 3rd Battalion Parade Deck at Marine Corps Recruit ...

Central to Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket is the screaming, beet-red face of Ronald Lee Ermey, an actual US Marine Corps drill instructor who portrayed the film’s Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. When ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brig. Gen. Walker Field, the commanding general at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina is considering whether to refer charges against a drill instructor for the death last ...

Former Marine Corps drill instructor Larry McNair, of Shallotte, released his debut book early this year. The book, titled “A Drill Instructor’s Journey,” is a collection of short stories drawn ... To ...