When U.S. Marine Sgt. Maj. Joy Maria Kitashima takes her post in July of 2023, she'll become the first female force-level sergeant major in the history of the Marine Corps.

CAMP COURTNEY, Okinawa — The Marine Corps’ first-to-fight force in the Pacific made history Tuesday when a woman became its senior enlisted Marine. Sgt. Maj. Joy Kitashima replaced Sgt. Maj ...

Bertha Peters Billeb earned that title in 1961, according to the Women Marines Association. Female Marines have since obtained the rank of sergeant major — but none have served there at the ...

Sgt. Maj. Joy Kitashima speaks after assuming the senior enlisted role for 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., July 11, 2022. (Adam Henke/U.S. Marine Corps) ...

One leader at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar has made shattering the glass ceiling look easy, and after helping opening the door for the next generation of female Marines, Sgt. Maj. Rosalia ...

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. -- Sgt. Maj. Octaviano Gallegos, Jr. relinquished the duties of sergeant major of 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit to Sgt. Maj. Lanette Wright aboard Marine ...

Retired Sgt. Maj. John Estrada, the 15th sergeant major of the Marine Corps and a former member of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services, acknowledged that there were rumors ...

Sergeant Major Christine Henning says she'll miss the one entity run almost entirely by women. CHRISTINE HENNING: That female legacy of only training in one company, training on one battalion, is ...

U.S. Marine Corporal Lakin Booker from the Female Examination Team (FET), India Company, 3rd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment (3/9), Regimental Combat Team 1, sights in during a security halt in ...

“It won’t be long before there are female drill instructors who, as recruits, graduated alongside their male counterparts,” said Sgt. Maj. Troy E. Black, sergeant major of the Marine Corps.