Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said this week that he will not ask for any exemptions for the Navy or Marine Corps to keep any jobs closed to women, meaning infantry and special operations communities could ...

To varying degrees, being a woman in the Marine Corps has tested all of them. Stephanie Schroeder said she was discharged after reporting a rape and spent years fighting for the Veterans Affairs ...

This 2018 video celebrates 100 years of women in the Marine Corps, highlighting their contributions, perseverance, and the barriers they’ve overcome. Female Marines reflect on the progress made, ...

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 Marines have inched grudgingly toward integration. Marine leaders flatly opposed allowing women in combat jobs, but Carter dismissed their arguments. Many Corps officers stridently defended the ...

SAN DIEGO - Marine 1st Lt. Brandy Soublet is about as far from the war front as possible at her desk in the California desert, but she's on the front lines of an experiment that could one day put ...

Cpl. Raquel Mathieu is part of a unique experiment to help the U.S. Marines determine the role of women in combat. Photo: Jeremy M. Lange for The Wall Street Journal CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.—In combat, the ...

In March 2025, the U.S. Department of Defense removed a webpage reporting the history of "Golden Girls" actor Bea Arthur enlisting in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve during World War II. For at least ...

Roberta “Randy” Tidmore was waiting at a bus terminal in Chicago more than 80 years ago on her way back to Rockford, Illinois, when a group of handsome young men in the U.S. Marine Corps walked past.