Molly Marine Presentation P Co 18Dec2013

The city of New Orleans dedicated the first United States monument of a woman in service uniform: “Molly Marine” on 10Nov, 1943.  A local recruiter commissioned the statue to help recruit women during World War II. For female Marines around the world, Molly has come to represent the countless significant contributions women have made to

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Molly Marine Presentation N Co. 13 Nov 2013

The city of New Orleans dedicated the first United States monument of a woman in service uniform: “Molly Marine” on 10Nov, 1943.  A local recruiter commissioned the statue to help recruit women during World War II. For female Marines around the world, Molly has come to represent the countless significant contributions women have made to

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Molly Marine Presentation P Co 30 Oct 2013

The city of New Orleans dedicated the first United States monument of a woman in service uniform: “Molly Marine” on 10Nov, 1943.  A local recruiter commissioned the statue to help recruit women during World War II. For female Marines around the world, Molly has come to represent the countless significant contributions women have made to

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MollyMarine

Molly Marines P Co 11Sept2013 The city of New Orleans dedicated the first United States monument of a woman in service uniform: “Molly Marine” on 10Nov, 1943.  A local recruiter commissioned the statue to help recruit women during World War II. For female Marines around the world, Molly has come to represent the countless significant

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Christmas Holiday Memories of Women Marines

Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to all! Today, we have a nice cornicopia for you.  Memories from Women Marines of various decades, photos, vintage postcards, as well as a special carol written by a Woman Marine while she was on the Drill Field in 1993! We’ll start this ‘party’ with the carol:  The 12 Days of Boot

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Women Marines sharing their Mess Duty memories.

  Some of you may remember a surfing song from the early 60s called “Surfer Joe” where he eventually joins the USMC and gets stationed at Camp Pendleton.  However, Joe can’t seem to stop answering the call of the wave…and of course he’s highly attracted to the very forbidden ‘Trestles’ area near San Onofre on

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Shakedown Cruise

Shakedown Cruise By Lieutenant E. Louise Stewart, USMCWR Transcribed by Sabrina Messenger (Blogger’s note: A firsthand account of an historic nationwide multi-city recruitment tour by the first Women Marine commissioned officers. Their mission? To find and persuade a “few good women” to enlist in the Corps in order to free a Marine to Fight. Reprinting

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