Marine Corps announces 6-pack of new drone courses for all its members
By
Lydia Gordon
Stars and Stripes • December
31, 2025
Marines load a simulated warhead onto a drone
during training at Camp Santiago, Puerto Rico, Nov. 19, 2025. The service
launched a training program this month that aims to rapidly boost the number of
Marine operators of commercial off-the-shelf attack drones. (Maurion Moore/U.S.
Marine Corps)
The Marine Corps is adding six new piloting
courses as the service prepares to field tens of thousands of commercial drones
in the coming year.
The plan, announced Monday in a memo from the
service, outlines a two-and-a-half-year framework to standardize drone training
across the Corps.
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