The Marine Corps is now touting that it hit its recruiting goals this year. It had stayed quiet this summer as the Army, Navy ...

School-age children get a glimpse of life as an enlisted Marine while simultaneously emphasizing the importance of community.

Night after night, the buses pull up on the tarmac outside the Parris Island Marine Corps recruit training center in South Carolina. Usually, they are full of young men—still boys, by some ...

Jordan Green is an investigative correspondent based in Greensboro, N.C., who covers right-wing extremism for Raw Story. His work has been featured in a host of publications, including the Washington ...

Final Drill at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island (Boot Camp), is the last evaluation of the recruits' execution of close order drill. Final Drill tests drill instructors on their ability to ...

Vice President JD Vance tested his physical abilities at Camp Pendleton recently when he went hiking with Marines from the base’s Headquarters and Support Battalion. Vance, who served in the Marines, ...

From buzz cuts and bed inspections to early wake-up calls and all-day training, boot camp is a crash course in discipline, grit, and growing up fast. Young recruits are tossed into a world of grueling ...

Christy Sauro went to his first Twins game a few weeks after graduating from North St. Paul High School in June 1967. He didn’t even make it to the seventh-inning stretch. Sauro was one of 150 young ...

From ‘Platoon’ to ‘Apocalypse Now’: which Vietnam films get the war right? All war is hell, but Vietnam was a specific kind ...

Geral Renoird just graduated boot camp and had 10 days of freedom before leaving for North Carolina to begin his Marine Corps combat training. Many graduates use this time to tie up loose ends — pack, ...