WASHINGTON (TND) — In an effort to "de-emphasize gender," a new academic report recommends that the United States Marine Corps boot camp stop using "gender-specific salutations" for drill instructors.

According to The Military Times, the report was commissioned by the Corps from the University of Pittsburgh in 2020 and completed in 2022. “The Army, Navy, and Coast Guard effectively de-emphasize ...

The female drill sergeant hat was first introduced in 1972, and it was based on the design of the Australian bush hat.

The Air Force says a program allowing recruits to connect online with a drill instructor before arriving at basic military training is now being used across the country and has reduced the number of ...

An academic report is recommending the U.S. Marine Corps get rid of "gender-specific salutations" for drill instructors. The report, commissioned in 2020 by the Corps from the University of Pittsburgh ...

Staff Sgt. Steven Smiley’s fate is in the hands of an eight-person jury. Closing arguments in the Marine drill instructor’s negligent homicide trial came Friday. The trial put the Marine training ...

A senior drill instructor testified this week she found Marine recruit Dalton Beals face down and without a pulse in a wooded area after Beal’s own drill instructor reported him “missing” during the ...

The Marine Corps is the military service that still operates gender-separated training at the platoon level. (Sgt. Daniel Wetzel/Marine Corps) The Marine Corps has received the findings of a detailed ...