Lady Marines

Produced by the Marine Corps Photographic Section of the Marine Corps Schools, this documentary on the formation of the Marine Corps Womens Reserve in 1943 was included on the show “2nd Reel” a public access show from Athens Georgia in the late 1990’s. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6osNgVZDt0] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbEkE7foQbc]

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Marine Corps Boot Camp: The Transformation

 When the title of Marine is earned we all know that transformation is one that lasts forever. Do you have a story about your time in the Corps and how it transformed you into the person you area?    

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Women & Marines

by Marine Corps News–>Cpl. Priscilla Sneden | Wednesday, July 15, 2009 (An older story from Marines Magazine you may have missed) In today’s corps, women play a vital role in the operating forces at home and abroad. Female Marines execute their daily tasks just as their male counterparts do from recruit training at Marine Corps

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You Joined What?

Did your parents utter those words when you joined the Marine Corps? Mine did, but back in the 1970s, they were pretty much kept in the dark about what was going on at boot camp unless I wrote and told them. Now, there’s a website for Marine parents to connect, share and compare notes with each

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Marines participate in 1st all-female jungle survival course

[wpvideo R3L8wZoG] Female Marines participated in the first-ever all-female jungle survival course at the Jungle Warfare Training Center in Okinawa. Cpl. Amber Watson reports. 22Dec 2009 Psted via email from Women Marines Association

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