When Justin Kelley graduates today from Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, he'll be a gunnery sergeant.

Lt Kevin Tye of the City of Denton Fire Department was promoted to Gunnery Sergeant in the Marine Corps Reserves.

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 ...

Marine Corps staff sergeants and gunnery sergeants will begin attending the same leadership school for promotion to the next ...

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 ...