“It is very majestic,” retired Marine Col. Thomas Connally said of the Marine Corps boat cloak, a garment so uncommon that ...

The Marine Corps has authorized female officers and staff noncommissioned officers to wear slacks instead of skirts with their dressy evening uniform. Until now, at fancy events like Marine Corps ...

Few Marine uniform items are as recognizable and as rarely seen as the boat cloak, a full-length outer garment that appears ...

The U.S. Marines Corps has modernized its dress code for women. Beginning this week, women in the Marines will no longer be required to wear pantyhose with their uniform skirts, a first since women ...

The dress uniform of the U.S. Marine Corps is one of the most recognizable in the nation. But not every Marine gets a dress uniform. One local World War II veteran waited 60 years to finally get his, ...

A 91-year-old WWII veteran from Hempstead says he had one wish after he came back from the war: to receive his dress blue uniform. Vincent Long says he never received his dress blues because of racial ...