But when he graduates Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, on Friday, he'll be a gunnery sergeant - a two-rank promotion that will propel him directly into the Corps' seasoned ...

Marine Corps staff sergeants and gunnery sergeants will begin attending the same leadership school for promotion to the next rank under a pilot program that will merge their respective schools ...

Gunnery Sgt. Diego D ... Navas also enlisted in the Marine Corps and he rose to the rank of sergeant before earning his commission in 2010. He went from serving as an administrative clerk to ...

Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps. Born: 11 October 1871, Haverhill, Mass. Accredited to: Massachusetts. G.O. No.: 55, 19 July 1901. Citation: In the ...