Considered an essential piece of kit for every Marine, a wide variety of private-purchase and standard-issue knives were pressed into service in every theater of the war to tackle tasks ranging ...

Colorado has a new national monument. Camp Hale was a World War II winter combat training site. (Story aired on Weekend Edition Saturday on Oct. 15, 2022.) ...

Even among the extraordinary generation of Americans that won World War II, Paul Douglas stands out as a legend. At 50 years old, Douglas arrived at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in ...

After the first one in the Pacific few months ago, the USMC renovated and reopened another WW2 airfield in North Carolina which will serve as a multipurpose outlying landing field. The U.S. Marine ...

Explore U.S. Marine Corps ranks from private to general. Learn rank structure, pay grades, insignia and promotion paths in ...