Enlisted Marine Corps ranks are broken down into three levels: junior enlisted, ... The rank of PFC was established in 1917 to mirror a similar rank added to the Army structure.

The Marine Corps is looking into replacing its standard metal rank insignia with cloth chevrons — a move calculated mostly to avoid rank confusion, according to Marine Corps Times.

The Corps’ lightning speed modernization effort to retool its forces for a bout with near-peer rivals is creating some hiccups in its force structure by spawning shortages in high-skill job sets ...

When Justin Kelley left the Air Force in 2015, he was an E-5 – a staff sergeant in the service’s rank structure. But when he graduated Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina ...

Sgt. Liam Kelly gets pinned with the sergeant insignia by his brother, Sgt. Aidan Kelly, in Saudia Arabia in 2021. (Cpl. Alexandra Munoz/Marine Corps) Some Marine corporals soon will be eligible ...

Before you get to basic training, most people don’t have a very thorough understanding of military ranks, let alone the ability to put them in order. Everybody recognizes the ones that commonly ...

The insignia’s design, released by the Marine Corps late Monday, measures 2 inches by 2¾ inches and includes several nods toward the Marine Raiders of World War II, the elite troops who ...

The lowest of the general officer ranks, Brigadier generals in the Marine Corps are one-star general officers. They preside over 10,000 to 15,000 Marines and are in charge of tactical planning and ...