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Various footage of USMC pugil stick fights at boot camp Parris Island and boot camp San Diego and Camp Pendleton Marine Corps ...

The training showed integrating new systems such as drones is not easy. Commanders are betting the often-frustrating lessons ...

The yelling, the sweat, the thousand-yard stares — these movies either nailed the chaos or missed it. Every service member has a boot camp story — the sand, the blisters, the broken sleep, the recruit ...

While hazing reports saw an upswing in 2024 after three years of steady decline, bullying complaints have been steadily ...

On Wednesday this week, First Lady Melania Trump and Second Lady Usha Vance visited Camp Lejeune and Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) New River in North Carolina, where they spent the day meeting with ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — First lady Melania Trump thanked roughly 1,500 Marines, sailors and airmen for their service Wednesday as Thanksgiving approaches, a greeting she offered after a visit to an on-base ...

During the height of World War II, when thousands of troops were learning intelligence craft at Camp Ritchie in central Maryland, a much smaller corps of several hundred was being trained for ...

Rev. Randy Heckert, a former Army chaplain, will be the keynote speaker at a Veterans Day concert at Malone University. The free concert will feature the Malone Symphonic Orchestra performing a salute ...

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - The U.S. Marine Corps celebrated its 250th birthday at Camp Lejeune this week. Although the official birthday is November 10th, the traditional cake-cutting ceremony took ...

Camp Lejeune is responding after an active duty Marine was arrested for allegedly traveling from North Carolina to Indiana to meet, kidnap, and sexually assault a 12-year-old girl. The FBI says ...