A female US Marine on Monday became the first woman to complete the Corps notoriously rigorous training course for infantry officers. Many women serve in the Marines and other branches of America's ...

In a historic first, the Marine Corps plans to assign a female officer to the infantry following her anticipated graduation from its grueling training program, service officials said Thursday. The ...

For the first time in its nearly 250-year history, the United States Marine Corps will have a female infantry officer after she graduates from an infantry officer course on Monday, a U.S. official ...

The recent announcement by Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos that he is exploring ways to better integrate female Marines into combat units came hot on the heels of a policy shift that will ...

The 13-week program is considered one of the toughest in the U.S. military, and one-third of the class dropped out before graduation. The... For the first time, a female Marine has completed the ...

For the first time in its nearly 250-year history, the Marine Corps has a female infantry officer. The woman, who wishes to keep her identity private, graduated from the Marines' infantry officer ...

History is made as the Marine Corps welcomes its 1st female infantry officer She passed a grueling officer course and became the first female infantry officer in the Marines' nearly 250 year history.

The female volunteers are part of a study by the Marines to see if women can become ground combat leaders. No other female Marines have signed up... The second of two female Marines who tried to make ...

Last year, an idea began percolating among some Marine infantry officers: How could they draft principles and procedures for if the Marines found themselves in a conflict similar to the one now raging ...