West Coast Marines want to train 500 new drone pilots a year in a crash course on everything from flying to explosions

A new crash course is teaching Marines the ins and outs of drone warfare, from navigation in flight to explosive payloads.
Task & Purpose

How to ace the Marine Basic Recon Course

The U.S. Marine Corps Basic Reconnaissance Course, better known as the Basic Recon Course, is where young Marines earn their place in the Marine Corps’ recon units. The course puts candidates through ...
Yahoo

Marine Corps launches six drone training programs open to any MOS

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marines with Advanced Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry–East, load a Mjolnir munitions system on a SkyRaider. (Cpl.
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Marines Training to Field Small Drones in Combat Units by Year’s End

Marine Corps rifleman with India Company, Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), prepares to catch a Skydio X2D small unmanned aircraft system during ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Camp Pendleton Marines do more training with drones as the technology advances

Cpl. Christopher Magana Pinawin remembers being in fourth grade when his father gave him a battery-powered drone to fly. The 21-year-old Marine from Fullerton was intrigued by the challenge of keeping ...
Stars and Stripes

Island-fighting doctrine makes Marine jungle training on Okinawa trendy

CAMP GONSALVES, Okinawa — About 40 Marines took turns Wednesday descending a 45-foot cliff — a hasty rappelling obstacle — part of a weeklong course designed to teach them and other service members ...