After deliberating for a day, the jury panel — which included eight male Marines senior to Felix — returned its verdicts in the case against the former drill instructor, who was accused of ...

Sisters and drill instructors, Staff Sgt. Paula Diaz and Sgt. Kezia Diaz, turned sibling rivalry into Marine Corps excellence at Parris Island. From childhood inseparability to pushing each other ...

Logan Sowell’s suicide in July 2021 is one of at least seven in the past five years involving the Marine Corps’ stable of drill instructors, according to military casualty reports obtained ...

The Marine Corps quietly directed its recruit depots to integrate male and female drill instructor teams at the platoon level in late 2023, and now the service is full steam ahead with the effort ...

A Royal Marines drill instructor told a new recruit who was later found dead on a railway line he had been given 'so many chances' by superiors after making mistakes, an inquest has heard.

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 ...

A new academic report on efforts to integrate Marine Corps boot camp recommends dropping gender-specific salutations for drill instructors, but service leaders are not convinced they want to take ...

Marine Corps Times previously reported. “The investigation revealed that although [Smiley] was technically qualified to serve as a senior drill instructor, he did not have the maturity ...

By Vimal Patel The U.S. Marine Corps has charged a former drill instructor with negligent homicide and other offenses in the death of a recruit during a grueling training exercise last year ...

Brig. Gen. Walker Field, the commanding general at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina is considering whether to refer charges against a drill instructor for the death last ...

The report recommends legal or administrative action against the drill instructor, two commanders and three additional Marines, but those decisions have not yet been made. Maj. Philip Kulczewski ...

Alshimmari after he graduates from the 11-week drill instructor training course. Though the recruits under his care at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina will mostly refer to ...