The United States Marine Corps is the maritime land force of the US military. It is responsible for conducting amphibious operations, and it has its own infantry, artillery, aerial, and special ...

Here’s a familiar scenario for most enlisted Marines: You’re walking along when you see an older Marine barreling toward you with an immaculate eight-point and a shit-ton of black stripes and rockers ...

Marines with Marine Special Operations Company Charlie, 1st Marine Raider Battalion, process intelligence and set up a visual telecommunication feed after a simulated direct-action night raid in 2015.

Three stripes up, crossed rifles in the center, this rank insignia is worn proudly by a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., March 8. Sergeant is ...

Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, Calif. -- The rank ladder in the Marine Corps is normally a linear path. Every now and then, someone mixes it up and becomes warrant officer or receives a full ...

Before you get to basic training, most people don’t have a very thorough understanding of military ranks, let alone the ability to put them in order. Everybody recognizes the ones that commonly show ...

MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. -- Hundreds of Marines who gathered here last week were given a risky mission: to challenge their leaders when they're doing something that doesn't make sense. That ...

John Dollard, 83, who spent more than three years serving as a Marine Corps sergeant in the 1950s, had hoped that “Sgt.” would adorn his gravestone at Calverton National Cemetery when his time comes.