“It is very majestic,” retired Marine Col. Thomas Connally said of the Marine Corps boat cloak, a garment so uncommon that ...

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 is polling its constituency on a handful of proposals, from uniform changes to incentive pay, in a survey published this week in an administrative message. Marines were surveyed about ...

New Marines prepare their combat utility uniforms for Family Day on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, on April 3. (Lance Cpl. Ava Alegria/Marine Corps) The Marine Corps’ ...

Female Marines will have the option of wearing the new evening dress slacks in time for the Marine Corps birthday balls in November 2024. (Lance Cpl. Juan Anaya/Marine Corps) Female Marines will get ...

The U.S. Marines Corps has modernized its dress code for women. Beginning this week, women in the Marines will no longer be required to wear pantyhose with their uniform skirts, a first since women ...

Marines are famously meticulous about their uniforms. Think of those ads with the Few and the Proud snapping to attention in perfect dress blues. But for more than a year, a shortage of several types ...

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, ...

After pandemic-related supply issues contributed to cammie shortages in the Marine Corps, the service says that the dark green uniforms are getting back on shelves. The Marine Corps said it initially ...

Marines are famously meticulous about their uniforms. Think of those ads with the Few and the Proud snapping to attention in perfect dress blues. But for more than a year, a shortage of several types ...