The commandant of the Marine Corps personally challenged a sergeant who made history last year when she reached a major training milestone to rethink leaving the service and instead consider a career ...

Amid the Department of Defense's historic change to open all combat jobs to women, the Marine Corps accepted the first female applicants to the sister service branches' special operations command ...

The US Marine Corps Special Operations Command (MARSOC) is seeking commercial support for the provision of certain specialist skill sets, highlighting requirements brought about by a rapidly evolving ...

A Marine staff sergeant will be the first woman to participate in MARSOC assessment and selection in August, just months after the Pentagon opened the door to women serving as operators. The ...

As it prepares to turn 10 next year, the Marine Corps’ small special operations community is the youngest of the military’s elite forces. That hardly means a lack of experience in dealing with threats ...

Individual Training Course students with Marine Special Operations School at Stone Bay, here, participate in the field training exercise Raider Spirit. Raider Spirit is an eight-day culminating event ...

Of the two enlisted female Marines who recently entered training to become Raiders, one remains in the first phase of Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command training. A female staff sergeant ...

Three Marine Raider battalions with the North Carolina-based Marine Corps Special Operations Command, or MARSOC, provide highly trained troops for special operations missions worldwide. One of those ...

This video dives into the infamous MARSOC selection test known for breaking nearly 70 percent of the Marines who attempt it. You will hear what makes the course so punishing, from the physical grind ...

On a bright day in February 2006, I stood alongside my fellow Marines and Sailors as then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld presided over the activation ceremony for Marine Corps Forces, Special ...

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