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In the recruit population, femoral neck stress fractures are of great concern because of their propensity to progress, displace, and lead to lifelong complications like avascular necrosis. We present two cases of bilateral operative femoral neck stress fractures. The first is of a 28-year-old male Marine Corps recruit who experienced bilateral groin pain during the first week of training. He was found to have bilateral grade 4 femoral neck stress fractures with concomitant effusions. Operative management was pursued with bilateral percutaneous pinning. For this patient, one hip had classically indicated operative involvement while on the contralateral hip the decision to operate was based on recent literature predicting progression based on the presence of a joint effusion. The second case is of a 23-year-old male Marine Corps recruit who experienced hip pain in the final few weeks of training. He was also found to have bilateral grade 4 femoral neck stress fractures with concomitant effusions and was similarly operated on. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported operative bilateral femoral neck stress fracture case series in a military-aged patient in the literature. 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