SAN DIEGO — Starting next week, the public can get an inside look at what it takes to become a US Marine, with help from a drill instructor. You still have time to sign up for the 21st annual Bootcamp ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) -- The annual Boot Camp Challenge returns to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot on Saturday morning, with hundreds participating in the obstacle course that recruits must go through ...

A judge has laid out grooming accommodations that the Marine Corps must offer to a Sikh soon-to-be recruit, likely setting a precedent for how other future recruits of the Sikh faith may be ...

They come from different backgrounds. They are high school students, college students, young men and women, and they have ALL made a commitment to join the US Marine Corps. The process just to be ...

A federal judge this month ordered the Marine Corps to allow a Sikh recruit to keep his long hair, beard and “articles of faith” while he’s in boot bamp. The Marines cannot require the recruit, ...

In a historic legal win for religious freedom in the military, a member of the Sikh community graduated from Marine Corps recruit training Friday while wearing articles of faith intrinsic to the South ...

The U.S. Marines are under a congressional mandate to end gender segregation in boot camp. That would bring the service in line with all the other branches of the military. But the Marines say they do ...

One of America’s newest Marines made history Friday as the first Sikh to complete boot camp without having to shave his head or beard or give up the “articles of faith” that Sikhs consider sacred.

Recruit Justin Kelley sets security during the Crucible on MCRD Parris Island, Dec. 5, 2024. (Staff Sgt Brendan Custer/Marine Corps) When Justin Kelley left the Air Force in 2015, he was an E-5 – a ...