The Recon Marine pipeline is difficult, no doubt about it. Recon candidates are expected to be proficient at running, rucking ...

Being a Marine requires a level of fitness the average military member does not have. The fitness tests are more difficult and the training is challenging, requiring Marines to stay in above-average ...

A Marine Corps scout sniper candidate with Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, adjusts his sights during a live-fire exercise at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat ...

Do you know the difference between Marine Recon and Force Recon? For starters, Reconnaissance Marines are the tip of the ...

The U.S. Marine Corps tasked Recon Marines with setting up the Marine Corps Special Operations Command (MARSOC) in the late aughts, making them the first modern-day Marine Raiders. That’s not to be ...

U.S. Marines with 3d Reconnaissance Battalion, 3d Marine Division and U.S. Airmen with the 320 Special Tactics Squadron attend a Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Japan ...

A Marine with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit prepares to board a combat rubber raiding craft to conduct a bottom-up visit, board, search, and seizure mission to intercept sensitive equipment ...

FALLOUJA, Iraq — Soon, the Marines would be marching forward in Great War-style formations on a chilly, rainy evening imbued with a sense of the apocalyptic. But for now, the troops crouched in ...

A Marine lieutenant colonel has been removed from his job after leaders lost confidence in his ability to command. He's at least the fourth Marine Corps officer to be relieved of command in about two ...