At just 16, Frank S. Wright lied about his age to join the Marine Corps and went on to see combat on Guadalcanal, New Georgia ...

There was an unscheduled delay in the negligent homicide trial of a Marine drill instructor at U.S. Marine Corps Recruit Depot in Port Royal Thursday: The accused wasn’t feeling well. Staff Sgt.

An eight-person military jury took two hours Friday to find Staff Sgt. Steven Smiley not guilty of negligent homicide and four other counts in the death of Marine recruit Dalton Beals in 2021. The ...

A staff sergeant who oversaw Marine training at South Carolina’s Parris Island has been cleared of criminal responsibility in the death of a 19-year-old recruit in 2021. A military jury on Friday ...

For the second time in less than two weeks, a drill sergeant at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, has been found dead. Staff Sgt. Zachary Melton, 30, a drill sergeant with 1st Battalion, 34th Infantry ...

He put in an application, and in 2024 he learned he’d be headed to the Army Drill Sergeant Academy in Columbia, South ...

May 30 -- Drew Yaun weighed 315 pounds when he started his freshman year of high school, and after spending most of his childhood overweight, he felt as though life was no longer worth living. But ...

Marine recruits participating in the Crucible in 2014 in Parris Island, South Carolina. (Tech. Sgt. Jason Robertson/Marine Corps) Seventeen-year-old Dalton Beals knew just what to do when his mom ...

PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. -- -- PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. -- A Marine Corps boot camp may be hell on Earth run by drill instructors who are "almost Satans in camies," or camouflage, as Gunnery Sgt. Arthur Foster ...

The Marine drill sergeant pulls up close to his young charges in boot camp _ to talk in a soft voice about morality. The scene is one the Marines envision under a proposed training program that ...