Molly Marines 4000 Series O Co

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 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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Eugenia Lejeune ~ Marine and Archivist

Eugenia Lejeune Marine and Archivist By Sabrina Messenger When one “googles’ for information on Eugenia Lejeune, Major, USMCR, most of what one finds defaults back to her illustrious father, General John Archer Lejeune.  I have a feel she would’ve wanted it that way. I’m of the impression that Eugenia was perfectly happy not being in

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By ‘Popular Demand’…an interview with Virginia Bueno.

By ‘Popular Demand’…an interview with Virginia Bueno.   By Sabrina M Messenger During the summer of 2013, the question was put forth to members of the Women Marines association, “If you could ask one of our women Marines about her life, who would you ask and what would you want to know?” The name that

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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage

 Celebrating Hispanic Heritage  By Sabrina Messenger    In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month which is observed each year from September 15 through October 15, I will be offering several in-depth interviews from some of our members of WMA who are of Hispanic/Latina descent. But first a bit of background information on Hispanics in the United

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Sergeant Major Grace Carle

Grace Carle  Sergeant Major of the Women Marines By Sharon Tutt It became a customary tradition for some women Marines to include in their nightly bedtime routine a chant for a particular hard charging Devil Dog’s name as inspiration.  She was the last Sergeant Major of the Women Marines, one of the oldest Women Marine

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