The Marine Corps has announced that it is changing the way it determines the body composition of its Marines, becoming the first military branch to move away from the traditional tape test in favor of ...

A Marine participates in a body composition assessment on Aug. 22 via bioelectrical impedance analysis scan at The Basic School on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia. (Lance Cpl. George Nudo/Marine ...

Nearly 300 female Marines have moved into combat-arms jobs that were, up until less than five years ago, previously open only to men. But only one female officer has led a Marine infantry platoon so ...