The recent announcement by Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos that he is exploring ways to better integrate female Marines into combat units came hot on the heels of a policy shift that will ...

The bigger picture, as raised by the second question and ignored during the Hegseth hearings, concerns the realities of military recruitment. No one in his—or her—right mind is going to voluntarily ...

“Push left,” she said after the squad completed its mock attack and assembled around her, gulping from canteens as they awaited feedback. “And make sure you’re communicating.” It was a fairly routine ...

WASHINGTON - A survey of nearly 54,000 members of the Marine Corps found that two out of three male Marines and one out of three female Marines were opposed to opening all combat jobs to women, ...

The debate over women in combat roles, resolved nearly a decade ago through real-world success, has resurfaced. Revisiting it distracts from critical military priorities like recruitment, ...

Ten years ago, amid sometimes bitter debate, the first women began the Army's notoriously hard Ranger infantry training program. The same year, combat jobs across the military were opened to female ...

Marines will react to male and female Marines serving alongside one another in combat as they have reacted to openly gay men and women serving in their ranks: no big deal. That’s the argument a pair ...

All Marines in combat arms fields will soon have to meet the same standards on their Physical Fitness Test, or PFT, regardless of their gender, under a service-wide policy announced Thursday. The new ...

Women weren’t allowed to officially serve in direct ground combat jobs when Emelie Vanasse started her ROTC program at George Washington University. Instead, she studied biology — but it still ...

Cpl. Raquel Mathieu is part of a unique experiment to help the U.S. Marines determine the role of women in combat. Photo: Jeremy M. Lange for The Wall Street Journal CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.—In combat, the ...

Until 1918, there were no women in Marine Corps except wives and daughters. It took the entrance of the U.S. into the first World War to open service in the Marine Corps to women, and even then we ...