“It is very majestic,” retired Marine Col. Thomas Connally said of the Marine Corps boat cloak, a garment so uncommon that its appearance at a formal ball can still stop conversations. The reaction ...

Few Marine uniform items are as recognizable and as rarely seen as the boat cloak, a full-length outer garment that appears mainly during Marine Corps birthday ball season. In a service already known ...

The Marine Corps has authorized female officers and staff noncommissioned officers to wear slacks instead of skirts with their dressy evening uniform. Until now, at fancy events like Marine Corps ...

The dress uniform of the U.S. Marine Corps is one of the most recognizable in the nation. But not every Marine gets a dress uniform. One local World War II veteran waited 60 years to finally get his, ...

Drill Instructors and Marines with November Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion march towards the Peatross Parade Deck before their graduation ceremony Nov. 16, 2018, at Marine Corps Recruit Depot ...

Pfc. Kathy Espinoza, from New York City, N.Y. inspects the new dress uniform of Pvt. Arella Aleman, from Dallas, Texas Nov. 9, 2018 at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C. (U.S. Marine Corps ...

The Navy Midshipmen football team will unveil a new, snazzy uniform on 9/11 to pay homage to the Marine Corps on a day that Americans will reflect on the 20th anniversary of the worst attack on U.S.

Three Marines who graduated boot camp in April were looking forward to representing their recent accomplishment at their Colorado high school graduation later this month. That was until they were told ...

Male Marines will now be allowed to carry small black umbrellas with their service or dress uniforms, the Marine Corps has confirmed. The commandant announced the news to reporters at the Pentagon on ...