The Marine Corps’ renowned reconnaissance training is being revamped to better prepare reconnaissance Marines and infantry ...

The new Ground Reconnaissance Course is one of two programs replacing the service’s Basic Reconnaissance Course.

The Marine Corps is rebooting how it trains Reconnaissance Marines, with an overhaul of the program’s notoriously tough training curriculum. Marines who wish to serve as part of a scout or ...

Under the new curriculum, candidates will complete the ground reconnaissance course before advancing to its amphibious counterpart. “Marine reconnaissance training will have the same rigor it’s long ...

Freshly minted recon Marines were showing up to their first units less prepared than expected, service leaders said. The ...

The Marine Corps has replaced its 12-week Basic Reconnaissance Course with two sequential programs: the Ground Reconnaissance Course and the Amphibious Reconnaissance Course. The change supports Force ...

U.S. Navy hospitalman Pete McGuire, a chief corpsman with 2d Reconnaissance Battalion, 2d Marine Division, completes the push-up portion of a recon physical assessment test (RPAT) at Camp Lejeune, N.C ...