CAMP PENDLETON — For the first time in Marine Corps history, female Marines on Tuesday, March 6 checked into the Marine Combat Training Battalion within the School of Infantry at Camp Pendleton.

For the first time, two female Marines are among those training to see if they have what it takes to be battlefield leaders. They're part of a test to see if women can lead Marines in ground ...

A diverse group of about 100 female Marines have volunteered for a combat training and research experiment unlike any other.In October, they checked into the Marine Corps’ Ground Combat Eleme… ...

It’s been more than four months since Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that all ground combat jobs would be open to women who qualify. The Marines had asked for a partial exemption for ...

Like the Pentagon's decision to allow some exceptions to the rules excluding women from combat, the Marines' announcements are steps in the right direction, but more is required. While the Infantry ...

Women can now apply for ground combat positions in the Marines, and training female recruits for those jobs will begin in June. But so far, no women have signed up.

Survey says 17 percent of Marines would likely leave Corps if women move into combat roles, but experts say not to get too worried ...

After the Pentagon required the Marines to open all combat positions to women in 2015, she became the first woman to lead a Marine ground combat arms unit two years ago.

After a lengthy experiment studying women in combat skills testing, the Marine Corps found that all-male units performed better than mixed-gender ones in most tactical areas, resulting in faster an… ...

— The first female Marine Corps general in charge of its tough-as-nails basic-training site on Parris Island says she’s confident that women in the Corps will be able to handle combat.

— The Marine Corps plans to establish an experimental force consisting of at least 25% women in the most far-reaching effort yet to determine how females will perform in ground combat jobs that ...

Defense Dept. has opened thousands of combat positions to women in the past year Marine Corps is smallest, most male of armed services; higher casualty rates A 1994 policy bars women from ground ...