The current revamp, she said, gives squads and platoons more flexibility with three fire teams, as opposed to just two. "The Marine Corps has looked to current conflicts, including the war in ...

Prior to that, the service had used the 13-Marine squad model since at least the 1950s, with three fire teams of four Marines and a squad leader. In 2018, then-Commandant Gen. Robert Neller ...

A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 experienced an engine fire on takeoff April 18 and conducted an emergency landing, damaging the tiltrotor. No crewmembers were hurt. It was latest mishap for a fleet that is ...

Previous infantry battalion experiments had also looked at having 14-Marine squads divided into two fire teams, along with a Navy corpsman, which would have increased the total size of the squad ...