MSN: Female marines can now wear the Marine Corps’ storied boat cloak
“It is very majestic,” retired Marine Col. Thomas Connally said of the Marine Corps boat cloak, a garment so uncommon that its appearance at a formal ball can still stop conversations. The reaction ...
New Marines prepare their combat utility uniforms for Family Day on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, on April 3. (Lance Cpl. Ava Alegria/Marine Corps) The Marine Corps’ ...
MSN: The Marine Corps dress tradition few Marines ever get to wear
Few Marine uniform items are as recognizable and as rarely seen as the boat cloak, a full-length outer garment that appears mainly during Marine Corps birthday ball season. In a service already known ...
Military.com: Marine Corps Cammie Items Are Back in Stock After Shortages Due to Pandemic-Related Supply Disruptions
The yearslong shortage of the Marine Corps' woodland top and bottom uniform items has finally relented, according to the manufacturer and distributors of the Marine pattern, or MARPAT, uniform that ...
Marine Corps Cammie Items Are Back in Stock After Shortages Due to Pandemic-Related Supply Disruptions
An eye-catching Marine Corps uniform accessory that was long reserved for male officers and senior enlisted leaders at the service’s birthday ball and formal evening dinners is no longer exclusively ...
Task & Purpose: This is why the top Marine general doesn’t wear the commandant’s cover
This is why the top Marine general doesn’t wear the commandant’s cover
Stars and Stripes: Rock the boat cloak: Showy Marine dress item to become unisex, allowed for women