The First Woman Was Sworn Into the Marine Corps a Century Ago. Now a Group of Veterans Is Trying ...
These days, women in the U.S. Marines have reached all kinds of milestones. Last week, for example, the New York on how Lieutenant Marina A. Hierl, 24 — one of only two women to have passed the 13-week Marines Corps’ Infantry Officer Course at Quantico, Va. — is adapting to her new job as the first woman in the Marines to lead an infantry platoon. This milestone comes about a century after another important one: the day Opha May Jacob Johnson, then 40, became the first woman ever sworn into the Marines Corps. Monday marks the centennial of ...
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