You take the gear needed for the mission. And for Marine Staff Sgt. Adam Jacks – a company gunnery sergeant at The Basic School at Quantico, Va. -- that means selecting the correct prosthetic leg. He ...

Doctors fitted a Marine from Long Island with a new 3D-printed prosthetic leg Wednesday in East Meadow. Kevin Vaughan was injured while serving in Afghanistan in 2011. He says the prosthetic leg he ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Competitive swimmers know that swimming underwater causes less drag resistance than swimming at the surface. Splashing around making waves isn't the most efficient way to ...

U.S. Marines could soon be required to take extra swimming and water survival lessons after a series of accidents that have cost the lives of several American soldiers at sea, armed forces news ...

The first time he encountered a tiger shark in the water, marine ecologist Neil Hammerschlag was in the Bahamas conducting research. His team was on a boat and hadn't seen many sharks, so when someone ...

As planktonic organisms the larvae of the marine annelid Platynereis swim freely in the open water. They move by activity of their cilia, thousands of tiny hair-like structures forming a band along ...

New research using high-fidelity numerical simulations is revealing details about how “hotspots” of small swimming organisms might contribute to the mixing of ocean waters. The research is depicted in ...

A Camp Pendleton-based Marine has died in Japan, the third to drown in the same swimming area on Okinawa. The series of drownings has prompted military officials to ban use of the area. U.S. Marine ...

1. Marine Staff Sgt. Adam Jacks was the first amputee to complete the Marine Corps’ Combat Instructor of Water Survival course. (Marine photo, Eve Baker) 3. Marine Staff Sgt. Adam Jacks (right) with ...