Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A slimmer, more senior and technology-driven Marine infantry battalion structure now unfolding across the service will shape the ...

Imagine yourself as a Marine in the 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, proudly wearing the insignia of a unit that blends speed with lethality. You’re in your early twenties — perhaps only ...

Marines with 1st Reconnaissance Battalion stand by the sign marking the entrance of their Vietnam headquarters. (Courtesy of Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis.) On a hill near Da Nang, Vietnam, sat Camp ...

The Marine Corps is exploring a variant of the amphibious combat vehicle for its future reconnaissance battalions with an equipment package containing drones and communication systems, and has asked ...

HEAVENLY MOUNTAIN RESORT – Friday was a decidedly low-key day for the members of the U.S. Marine Corps 3rd Recon Battalion. There were no training exercises in the heat of the Nevada desert, and there ...

The Marine Corps is ramping up new training courses with plans to field 10,000 small drones and equip its ground combat teams ...

A U.S. Marine with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 3d Marines, crawls onto the beach during reconnaissance scout swimmer training part of Exercise Bougainville I at Marine Corps Training Area Bellows, ...