In fiscal 2016, the service received 1,603 new officers, of whom 9.8 percent were women and 33.3 percent were non-white, Marine Corps Recruiting Command spokesman Jim Edwards told Military.com.

The Marine Corps will soon have its second female infantry leader after a lieutenant graduates from the famously tough Infantry Officer Course, which prepares officers to command grunts in combat.

Marine Commandant Gen. David Berger on Friday took to Twitter to announce his goal of having more female Marine officers attend the Corps’ grueling 13-week Infantry Officer Course, known as IOC.

— -- For the first time in its nearly 250-year history, the United States Marine Corps will have a female infantry officer after she graduates from an infantry officer course on Monday, a U.S ...

— -- For the first time in its nearly 250-year history, the Marine Corps has a female infantry officer. The woman, who wishes to keep her identity private, graduated from the Marines ...

Marines participate in an exercise during the Infantry Officer Course at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, Sept. 18, 2017. The first female Marine to complete the ...

Three women completed the U.S. Army's Ranger School in 2015, and one of them, Capt. Kristen Griest, became the Army's first female infantry officer last year, Army Times reported.

The Marine Corps’ admission of female officers to the grueling 13-week infantry course is part of an effort to gather research on what jobs would be open to women.

US Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Chandra Francisco with the female engagement team in support of 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 8, talks to Afghan women inside a compound during an ...

The Marine Corps’ executive ranks are dominated by infantry officers, and virtually every four-star general in the history of the Corps has been an infantryman or a pilot. This is no coincidence.

Women say officer got them alone, ... “If the Marine Corps had done what it was supposed to do in 2014, he wouldn’t have been brought back to the same building,” Yetter, ...

A female Marine says a double standard is holding women back. ... I must have looked like a child next to the buff guys assembling for Day 1 of the Marine Corps’ Infantry Officer Course.