The Marine Corps has made the combat instructor job a special duty assignment once more, effectively allowing those instructors to sidestep the sometimes-dreaded recruiter or drill instructor jobs.

They learned how to salute: palms flat and at a sharp ... The driver warned the recruits, just before reaching the Marine depot at dusk, that a drill instructor would soon rush aboard and ...

Charlotte Williams that special occasion was carried out by her grandfather, retired Marine Staff Sgt. James Williams. After delivering a salute that would make any drill instructor proud ...

Four Marines were named the top performers across the service’s special duty ranks, which includes drill instructors, recruiters, combat instructors and Marine security guards. The four were ...

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 ...

Marine drill instructors are famously tough. In fact, they hold one of the military's "most iconic jobs" as they get new recruits ready for battle, notes a joint story by the Washington Post and ...

He was a marine drill instructor doing his job. “If the conditions of the Crucible are hot or difficult, that doesn’t fall on Staff Sgt. Smiley,” Vokey said. Much of the trial focused on how ...

PARRIS ISLAND — The court-martial of a Marine drill instructor implicated in the 2021 death of a recruit under his command got underway July 17 in a Parris Island courtroom. Staff Sgt.

a U.S. Marine Corps drill instructor. The only connection between legend and real life in this case is that Don Knotts did serve in the military. Born the youngest of four brothers in Morgantown ...

And he told the jury to send a message “we expect drill instructors to train Marines to do the right things but we won’t make one a scapegoat because of a tragic event.” “If the conditions ...