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In 2018, a Marine general who heads the service's training command wrote about his concern that the "pursuit of ensuring fair and equitable opportunity" had allowed a female Marine candidate demonstrating "dangerously poor performance" to continue a key course.

Beginning Oct. 1, Marines who score as marksman and sharpshooter will be given two more attempts within the same year to improve their score.

Lt. Col. Michael Masters was booked into a Florida county jail on Saturday morning and charged with felony-level "abuse of a child without great bodily harm" and domestic battery by strangulation, according to county police records.

Although there are now Marines who are authorized to operate amphibious combat vehicles, it’s unclear when the vehicles will be deployed.

But it appears changes, if any, aren’t coming soon.

But it appears changes, if any, aren’t coming soon.

The transition training unit will include aviators, light armored vehicle crewmen, AAV crewmen and others.

The transition training unit will include aviators, light armored vehicle crewmen, AAV crewmen and others.

In relieving Col. John Medeiros, the Marine Corps cited “a loss of trust and confidence in his ability to command.”

The Marine commandant says this and other new body-composition policies will help “maintain a healthy, ready force.”