The Marine Corps has made the combat instructor job a special duty assignment once more, effectively allowing those instructors to sidestep the sometimes-dreaded recruiter or drill instructor jobs.

The flight hours occurred in support of service-level training exercises and weapons and tactics instructor courses.

Narrator: Using hand-to-hand combat in an event called ... [drill instructor blows whistle] Drill instructor: Winner! Loser! Get out! More from Military & Defense ...

delivering combat orders, and executing orders. More from Loadout Capt. Zachary McCormick, a US Marine Corps instructor, walks us through 43 essential items a Marine officer would bring on a mission.

Members of a platoon of female U.S. Marine Corps recruits gear up before training in hand-to-hand combat at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in Parris Island, S.C., in 2023. (Stephen B. Morton/AP ...

U.S. Marine Corps has passed more than 1,000 flight hours with MQ-9A unmanned aircraft in support of service-level training ...