Although only about 9% of firefighters in the United States are women, Heath says she has never let that intimidate her.

The Women’s Professional Baseball League will hold tryouts next month at the Washington Nationals’ home ballpark as it moves ...

The Marine Corps quietly directed its recruit depots to integrate male and female drill instructor teams at the platoon level in late 2023, and now the service is full steam ahead with the effort ...

While not every DI team can be gender-integrated due to a limited number of female drill instructors at the depots, Draper said minimums were established. At San Diego, where a total of 12 DI ...

Staff Sgt. Savannah Pizano, a senior drill instructor with India Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, participates in a battalion commander inspection at MCRD San Diego, Oct. 23, 2024. (Cpl ...

To achieve its target distribution, the Marine Corps said it needed to increase its population of female drill instructors from 134 to 207, a goal it first publicized in 2021.

Having gender-assigned drill instructor teams, “hinders female drill instructors ability to train recruits and promote to higher positions of leadership and creates unnecessary challenges for ...

Chow explained she had approached Seattle police department’s drill instructor Ted Yerabek to teach the new girls’ team drills, which he did for around 15 years.

The investigation began after a Dec. 12, 2022, incident in which the male drill instructor grabbed a female recruit by the head and said something along the lines of “I choose you.

There will be fewer female E-4 to E-6s available and eligible to meet drill instructor requirements in coming years. (Pfc. Marvin Chavez/Marine Corps) As the Marine Corps hurtles toward ...

An academic report is recommending the U.S. Marine Corps get rid of "gender-specific salutations" for drill instructors. The report, commissioned in 2020 by the Corps from the University of ...

WASHINGTON (TND) — In an effort to "de-emphasize gender," a new academic report recommends that the United States Marine Corps boot camp stop using "gender-specific salutations" for drill ...