The new 14-week course will add five weeks to the current course required for becoming an 0311. (Lance Cpl. William Chockey/Marine Corps) In preparation for a future war where Marine infantry platoons ...

Marines participate in an exercise during the Infantry Officer Course at Quantico, Va., Aug. 10, 2017. The first female Marine to complete the course graduated Sept. 25, 2017. (Master Gunnery Sgt.

Move is part of research into opening more ground combat jobs to women Women who complete training will not be assigned to the infantry Pentagon earlier this year repealed rules barring women from ...

Army basic training got a major face lift in 2018. Early in the year, Fort Jackson, South Carolina’s basic training program of instruction was updated to encourage more fitness and discipline in new ...

M. Herman “Bo” Bell of Miami, Florida, spent 23 years as a commissioned Army officer and retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1979. During his military career, he spent 16 years in Special Forces as a ...

Retired Marine general and former defense secretary Jim Mattis is well known for his extensive reading lists, encompassing everything from “The Guns of August” to Marcus Aurelius’ “Meditations.” But ...

The Marine Corps will conduct wargames to determine whether infantry jobs should remain specialized or be rolled into a single military occupational specialty. Commandant Gen. David Berger has ...

FORT BENNING, Ga. --- The pilot class for the 22-week One-Station Unit Training for Infantry Soldiers graduated today on Inouye Field at the National Infantry Museum in Columbus, Georgia. The pilot ...

The U.S. Army is refining a plan to extend by two months the service's 14-week infantry one station unit training, or OSUT, so young grunts arrive at their first unit more combat-ready than ever ...