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 — a move calculated mostly to avoid rank confusion, according to Marine Corps Times.

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 ...

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 ...

When Justin Kelley left the Air Force in 2015, he was an E-5 – a staff sergeant in the service’s rank structure. But when he graduated Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina ...

The insignia’s design, released by the Marine Corps late Monday, measures 2 inches by 2¾ inches and includes several nods toward the Marine Raiders of World War II, the elite troops who ...

RESOURCES Service members and their families can find suicide-prevention help on most bases. They also can contact Military OneSource, which offers counseling and a variety of other s… ...

The lowest of the general officer ranks, Brigadier generals in the Marine Corps are one-star general officers. They preside over 10,000 to 15,000 Marines and are in charge of tactical planning and ...