Like many other Marine Corps ranks, master gunnery sergeant was established permanently in the late 1950s. The MGySgt is the technical expert in their MOS.

Even as the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force fell short of their recruitment goals in 2023, the Marine Corps exceeded it, albeit just slightly. The military services collectively missed recruiting ...

The Marine Corps has launched a pilot program that will allow qualified recruits to enter the Corps with a rank as high as gunnery sergeant. The two-year Marine Talent Acquisition Pilot Program ...

The Marine Corps has announced a new pilot program that will allow some signals and cyber recruits to enter the service at high enlisted ranks, including up to gunnery sergeant.. The Marine Corps ...

A Marine Corps pilot program will offer civilians the chance to enlist at ranks up to gunnery sergeant if they have skills in cyber operations or signals intelligence, according to guidance issued ...

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.

But when he graduated Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, on Friday, he became a gunnery sergeant — a two-rank promotion that will propel him directly into the Corps ...

In June 2010, Gunnery Sgt. Melugin took on the role of Course Chief for the Marine Corps Cannon Crewman Advanced Course at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, and was later promoted to Master Sergeant.

Marine Corps Manpower and Reserve Affairs officials did not respond to questions this week about the duration of the pilot period, the application deadlines and any associated incentives to apply.