The Marines' infantry program requires candidates to spend long days and nights in primitive conditions and to complete a grueling 20 kilometer hike with 85 pounds of gear. For the first time today, ...

U.S. Marine Corps Nyron Lewis, combat photographer, Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center, Marine Air-Ground Task Force Training Command, uses the Joint Terminal Attack Controller Virtual Trainer ...

U.S. Marines with II Marine Expeditionary Force Support Battalion, participate in the Outdoor Infantry Immersion Trainer at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Aug. 21, 2025. The O-IIT ...

The Marine Corps is introducing virtual training simulators for infantrymen whose work subjects them to repeated blasts, which growing research indicates is a risk factor for brain injury and suicide.

Pfc. Julia Carroll, Pfc. Christina Fuentes Montenegro and Pfc. Katie Gorz were to graduate today at the Marine Corps School of Infantry, Camp Geiger, N.C., along with the men who took the course with ...

On Thursday, July 3, U.S. Marines with the Advanced Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry — East, performed a live-fire combined arms exercise in Camp Lejeune, showcasing the Mjölnir lethal ...

Marines in Marine Combat Training Battalion at School of Infantry-West conduct nighttime live-fire and maneuver drills on Camp Pendleton, California, in 2018. (Pfc. Kerstin Roberts/Marine Corps) A ...

When I was a rifle company commander, I focused a lot of attention on my Marines’ next live-fire event and all of the preparations for it. In the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC), we believe that live fire is ...