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A Marine’s greatest threat isn’t always a physical adversary. Marines risk their lives to protect their country. However, some warfighters deal with a range of social, financial or mental health concerns upon returning home. This can lead to the Marine experiencing personal issues that compromise their overall health and combat readiness. In 2020, Marine Corps Systems Command deployed an application designed to help commanders and their leadership team monitor behavioral changes among Marin...

Marine mothers are now exempt from fitness tests, weight standards for 1 year after giving birth February 8 Marines and their spouses attend the quarterly Headquarters and Support Battalion baby shower on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Feb. 21, 2018. (Lance Cpl. Megan Roses/Marine Corps) The Marine Corps will extend the postpartum moratorium on physical fitness from nine months to 12 months, according to an administrative message released from the Marine Corps on Monday. H...

From Peace Corp volunteer to Capitol insurrectionist: How Thomas Baranyi went from being a quiet, troubled kid to a man who felt betrayed by politics Joshua Zitser, Sophia Ankel US Capitol protester Thomas Baranyi, 28, speaks to a WUSA reporter on January 6, 2020. Thomas Baranyi was identified by the FBI after appearing in a TV interview where he talks about storming the Capitol. Insider spoke to his former friends and coworker who described him as "quiet" and "disillus...

WUSA9/YouTube Thomas Baranyi was identified by the FBI after appearing in a TV interview in which he talked about storming the Capitol. Insider spoke with his former friends and coworker; they described him as "quiet" and "disillusioned." Baranyi had a tumultuous New Jersey childhood and was estranged from his friends before joining the Peace Corps. Thomas Baranyi was part of the mob breaking down the doors into the Senate chamber when Capitol police shot the woman...

Parris Island recruits death relevant at drill instructors trial, judge rules Raheel Siddiqui, 20, died during boot camp in March 2016. (Family photo via DFP) A military judge has denied an attempt by the attorneys representing a former Parris Island drill instructor at his upcoming court-martial to exclude evidence of a recruit’s death.  Gunnery Sgt. Joseph A. Felix is accused of slapping recruit Raheel Siddiqui moments before he leapt to his death, and ordering another Muslim recruit t...

BEAUFORT — Since 1949, South Carolinas Marine Corps Recruit Depot at Parris Island has been the only place in the country where women would earn the title held by the few and the proud.  But, in a historic first announced this past week, 60 female recruits will begin training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego in 2021. The California military base has traditionally only trained men born west of the Mississippi River, while Parris Island trained men and women. “In an effort ...

Photo via Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island Facebook page 18 Dec 2020 Military entry-level training, like most things in 2020, has been anything but normal this year. Recruits have spent the weeks leading up to boot camp or basic training sequestered in dorm rooms and hotels. Hundreds of Navy recruits made headlines in the spring when they were quarantined at an indoor Illinois water park, not far from Great Lakes Training Center -- though the waterslides werent actually up and running. ...

3 Female Marine Officers to Attempt Infantry Officer Course as Another Graduates Marines in the Infantry Officer Course run to their first objective during a live-fire training exercise at Range 410A aboard the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., on June 9, 2018. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. William Chockey) 16 Dec 2020 The Marine Corps will soon have its second female infantry leader after a lieutenant graduates from the famously tough Infantry Officer Co...

USNI News Search for: Home » Military Personnel » Marine Infantry Training Shifts From ‘Automaton’ to Thinkers, as School Adds Chess to the Curriculum Marine Infantry Training Shifts From ‘Automaton’ to Thinkers, as School Adds Chess to the Curriculum December 15, 2020 3:59 PM Infantry Training Battalion instructors play chess in their instructor ready room at School of Infantry-West at Camp Pendleton, Calif. US Marine Corps photo. The Marine Corps is about to revolutionize infantry t...

Women will attend boot camp at San Diego Marine Corps Recruit Depot for first time in history December 15, 2020 A drill instructor with Oscar Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, Platoon 4042, instructs her platoon on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., Sept. 6, 2019. (Lance Cpl. Shane T. Manson/Marine Corps) For the first time in Marine Corps history, women will be trained at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego. The Corps’ West Coast recruit depot traditionally has tra...