In a historic first, the Marine Corps plans to assign a female officer to the infantry following her anticipated graduation from its grueling training program, service officials said Thursday. The ...

A female US Marine on Monday became the first woman to complete the Corps notoriously rigorous training course for infantry officers. Many women serve in the Marines and other branches of America's ...

For the first time in its nearly 250-year history, the United States Marine Corps will have a female infantry officer after she graduates from an infantry officer course on Monday, a U.S. official ...

Pfc. Julia Carroll, Pfc. Christina Fuentes Montenegro and Pfc. Katie Gorz were to graduate today at the Marine Corps School of Infantry, Camp Geiger, N.C., along with the men who took the course with ...

The 13-week program is considered one of the toughest in the U.S. military, and one-third of the class dropped out before graduation. The... For the first time, a female Marine has completed the ...

The female volunteers are part of a study by the Marines to see if women can become ground combat leaders. No other female Marines have signed up... The second of two female Marines who tried to make ...