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 ...

CAMP PENDLETONCAMP PENDLETON — Camp Pendleton’s Reconnaissance Training Company Marines got an aerial view of the base during Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction training April 17 at San Mateo Landing ...

The Corps has its first-ever female reconnaissance Marine. Lance Cpl. Alexa Barth completed the Basic Reconnaissance Course on Nov. 7, Marine officials confirmed. She's the first woman to apply to and ...

The Corps removed an officer from command and ordered a revamp of preliminary reconnaissance training after a Marine drowned earlier this year during a Camp Pendleton swim test, the Marine Corps ...

The Recon Marine pipeline is difficult, no doubt about it. Recon candidates are expected to be proficient at running, rucking, swimming, the list goes on and on. But there’s more to being a Recon ...

CAMP SCHWAB, Okinawa — Leaders with the Camp Schwab-based 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion said this week that recently announced changes to the recon community will make Marine reconnaissance stronger. A ...

WASHINGTON — The Marine killed last week during a live-fire training exercise at Camp Pendleton, Calif., was in the early weeks of a reconnaissance course at the service’s West Coast infantry school ...

A Camp Pendleton Marine died Thursday night while taking part in live-fire training at the sprawling military base, officials said. Lance Cpl. Joseph D. Whaley was four weeks into a 13-week Basic ...