First male Marine Corps recruits graduate from previously all-female boot camp battalion 2 hours ago Marines with Papa Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, graduate recruit training aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island South Carolina, Mar. 26, 2021. (Lance Cpl. Samuel C. Fletcher/Marine Corps) The previously all-female 4th Recruit Training Battalion has graduated four of its first-ever male platoons alongside two female platoons and included the first male drill instructors assigned within the battalion. On March 26, Papa Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, completed training and graduated with the coed mix at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, South Carolina, according to a Marine Corps statement.
Marines: This might be your new physical training uniform 2 days ago Capt. Donovan Holloway, an intelligence officer at Marine Corps Systems Command, demonstrates a prototype version of the new physical training uniform. (Tonya Smith/Marine Corps) The Marine Corps may soon have new green-on-green physical training uniforms. The Corps announced it will start a trial run of a more modern uniform, with a slightly different look. The new shirt will be more form fitting, feature “USMC” insignia in reflective silver on the back, an Eagle, Globe and Anchor on the sleeves, and come with a mesh side panel for breathability, a Marine Corps press release said.
1 day ago U.S. service members receive the COVID-19 vaccine aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar on Jan 29, 2021. (Cpl. Leilani Cervantes/Marine Corps) Nearly 40 percent of Marines who were offered the COVID-19 vaccine by the Defense Department have turned it down. The numbers were first reported by CNN on Saturday. As of April 8, roughly 75,500 Marines, both active duty and reserves, have received at least a partial dose of the COVID-19 vaccine from the Marine Corps, according to Capt. Andrew Wood, a spokesman for Headquarters Marine Corps. The Corps has roughly 102,000 Marines who still have not had an opportunity to take the vaccine through the military.
China’s navy has more ships than the US. Does that matter? Geoff Ziezulewicz
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China s Harbin (112) guided-missile destroyer takes part in a week-long joint exercise with Russia in the East China Sea off Shanghai in May 2014. (Zhang Lei/Color China Photo/AP) Exactly if and when the increasing antagonism between United States and China will boil over into full-on conflict remains anybody’s guess. But for now, one thing is as clear as the aqua-blue waters that lap up on the shores of China’s man-made islands in the South China Sea: Beijing’s naval fleet is larger than that of the U.S. Navy.