Moving up the Marine Corps Ranks: Company commanders have the authority to promote active-duty enlisted privates (E-1) to the rank of PFC (E-2) once they have completed six months of service.

The Marine Corps is looking into replacing its standard metal rank insignia with cloth chevrons ... 7/25/17; 3:17 pm: This article has been updated with a statement from Marine Corps Systems ...

US Marine Corps Ranks and Insignia, Complete List In Order The U.S. Marine Corps ranks are broken down into three groups: Enlisted Ranks (E-1 to E-9), Warrant Officer Ranks (W-1 to W-5) and ...

A man with Riverbend roots rises to one of the U.S. Marine Corps’ most selective ranks, earning the title of warrant officer ...

Even as the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force fell short of their recruitment goals in 2023, the Marine Corps exceeded it, albeit just slightly. The military services collectively missed recruiting ...

One Marine sergeant says harassment online and offline affects the female ­Marines she serves beside. (Cpl. Laura Mercado/Marine Corps) One hundred years ago, on Aug. 13, 1918, Opha May Johnson ...

Sgt. Liam Kelly gets pinned with the sergeant insignia by his brother, Sgt. Aidan Kelly, in Saudia Arabia in 2021. (Cpl. Alexandra Munoz/Marine Corps) Some Marine corporals soon will be eligible ...

The Marine Corps created the SMMC billet in 1957. The Army got on board with its first SMA, William Wooldridge, in 1966. He was followed a year later by inaugural MCPON Delbert Black and MCSAF ...

The remaining alumni still in the legislature are George W. Owings III, a Calvert County Democrat who served four years in the corps as a sergeant during the Vietnam War, and Del. James F. Ports ...

Marine Corps ranks for officers are split into two tiers: officer and general. Commissioned officers do not enlist. They serve indefinitely at the pleasure of the president of the United States ...