Female recruits are expected to be split evenly between the two locations by next year, the Marine Corps statement said. The Corps is the service with the highest percentage of men in the military.

Marine Maj. Gen. Loretta Reynolds, currently head of Marine Corps Forces Cyber Command, has been nominated to be the Corps’ first female three-star general in nearly a decade, officials ...

As of April, the Defense Department only listed 16 female colonels in the Marine Corps and just one two-star general, meaning about 2.3 percent of ranks O-6 and above are held by women in the Corps.

The United States Marine Corps released a first-of-its-kind TV ad on Friday featuring a female Marine captain — the military branch's bid to recruit more women to become "the few, the proud ...

Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., outgoing Marine Corps commandant and the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has not decided whether to ask for an exception to the new Department of Defense ...

U.S. Marine Corps Recruit Caitlyn Doers carries a fellow recruit during maneuver under fire portion of the Combat Fitness Test at the 3rd Battalion physical training field on Marine Corps Recruit ...

United States Marine Corps Official Page/Fickr Since then, 74 women have moved into combat jobs previously open only to men. In total, women make up about 8.3 percent of the 183,000-strong Corps.

The female infantry officer will now head to the 1st Marine Division at Camp Pendleton, California, for her first assignment. Today, the first female Marine graduated from Infantry Officer Course ...

WASHINGTON — Two civilian officials with the Marine Corps say their boss, a Marine officer, repeatedly made sexually explicit overtures to them at work, and their complaints to leadership were ...

US Marine Corps/Sgt. Jennifer Jones Since then, 74 women have moved into combat jobs previously open only to men. In total, women make up about 8.3 percent of the 183,000-strong Corps.

Women in combat jobs. It was in 2016 that the Defense Department approved the Marine Corps’ plan to open up all combat jobs and positions to women.. Female Marines slowly began entering fields ...

The only female officer enrolled in the Marine Corps’ Infantry Officer’s Course has dropped out after failing to complete two conditioning hikes last month, according to the Marine Corps ...