Marines with Marine Special Operations Company Charlie, 1st Marine Raider Battalion, process intelligence and set up a visual telecommunication feed after a simulated direct-action night raid in 2015.
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US military ranks explained: What is a butter bar

The US military's rank structure is a complex language of stripes, stars, and titles. In this definitive guide, we decode the ...
John Dollard, 83, who spent more than three years serving as a Marine Corps sergeant in the 1950s, had hoped that “Sgt.” would adorn his gravestone at Calverton National Cemetery when his time comes.
MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. -- Hundreds of Marines who gathered here last week were given a risky mission: to challenge their leaders when they're doing something that doesn't make sense. That ...
Before you get to basic training, most people don’t have a very thorough understanding of military ranks, let alone the ability to put them in order. Everybody recognizes the ones that commonly show ...