Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marines practice basic marksmanship at Camp Geiger, North Carolina. (Sgt. Tyler L. Main/Marine Corps) Marine 1st Lt. Marina Hierl ...

The Marine Corps will make history on Thursday when the first three female infantry Marines join their unit at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, officials said. The women are headed to 1st Battalion, 8th ...

LEJEUNE, NC (KGO) -- History was made in the U.S. Marine Corps Thursday as the first women to fill regular infantry jobs reported for duty in camp Lejeune, North Carolina. It's a landmark move in the ...

CAMP GEIGER, N.C. (AP) – Three Marines have become the first women to graduate from the Corps’ tough-as-nails enlisted infantry training school in North Carolina, officials said Thursday. The three ...

The Marines' infantry program requires candidates to spend long days and nights in primitive conditions and to complete a grueling 20 kilometer hike with 85 pounds of gear. For the first time today, ...

Pfc. Julia Carroll, Pfc. Christina Fuentes Montenegro and Pfc. Katie Gorz were to graduate today at the Marine Corps School of Infantry, Camp Geiger, N.C., along with the men who took the course with ...

(AP) The head of the Marine Corps the most male of all military branches said Thursday the infantry side is skeptical about how women will perform in those units, and some combat positions may end up ...

WASHINGTON • There may be some anxiety from male Marines as female officers work their way into infantry and other combat jobs that historically have been open only to men, Gen. James F. Amos, the ...

NPR — along with seven public radio stations around the country — is chronicling the lives of America's troops where they live. We're calling the project "Back at Base." Lance Cpl. Jasmine Abrego is ...

The recent announcement by Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos that he is exploring ways to better integrate female Marines into combat units came hot on the heels of a policy shift that will ...