The 13-week program is considered one of the toughest in the U.S. military, and one-third of the class dropped out before graduation. The... For the first time, a female Marine has completed the ...

A female US Marine on Monday became the first woman to complete the Corps notoriously rigorous training course for infantry officers. Many women serve in the Marines and other branches of America's ...

In a historic first, the Marine Corps plans to assign a female officer to the infantry following her anticipated graduation from its grueling training program, service officials said Thursday. The ...

Last week, students in the Marine Corps Infantry Officer Course at the base in Quantico got a taste of what it's like to deal with unruly civilians. The training is designed to simulate the kinds of ...

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 second female Marine officer has washed out of the corps’ infantry-officer training, Marine Corps Times reports. That means both women – along with nearly 30 of 107 men – have failed to make it ...

History is made as the Marine Corps welcomes its 1st female infantry officer She passed a grueling officer course and became the first female infantry officer in the Marines' nearly 250 year history.

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 ...