MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C. -- The female dress cover may change soon, more than 11 years after Gen. James T. Conway, the 34th Commandant of the Marine Corps, started an initiative ...

Recruits with Platoon 4040, Papa Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, try on their blue dress coats for the first time Aug. 21, 2018, on Parris Island S.C. (Marine Corps) ...

Marine Corps Base Quantico - Marine Corps Systems Command is conducting a survey to get MarinesÕ input on an improved dress/service cover and prototype female blues coat. For details, read the ...

In another Task and Purpose editorial from 2015, two female Marine officers, Maj. Nicole V. Bastian and Capt. Mabel Annunziata, protested changes to the female dress blue coat as a misplaced ...

Roughly 129 Marines recently became the first women to graduate boot camp in the Corps’ new female blue dress coat, officials have announced. Check out our latest YouTube videos. Watch here 🎥 ...

Not only do female Marine officers have to purchase new covers by 2015 for $76-85, they would have to spend considerable money on new dress blue coats and the accompanying tailoring if the Marine ...

Mabus recently directed the Marines to adopt the male hat as a common cover (a month after the possibility that male Marines would wear female-style covers, termed "girly hats," erupted in the press).

The Marines made the change Thursday after U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree complained that its dress policy unintentionally discriminated against female recruits. Men are allowed to wear crew-neck T-shirts.

The altered dress code means Pimental can now cover her tattoo, which she got shortly after turning 18. "There is nothing I want more than to be able to serve as a Marine," she said.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) – The U.S. Marine Corps is making it easier for women to cover up tattoos by allowing them to wear crew-neck undershirts beneath their uniforms. The Marines made the chang… ...