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The Marine Corps seeks to take full advantage of the talents, strengths, skills, and perspectives of every Marine. Women in the Marine Corps have achieved many significant milestones in recent years.
Private First Class Cristina Fuentes Montenegro was one of three females to volunteer and graduate from an Infantry Training Battalion (ITB) course in 2013, when the Marine Corps was conducting studies to evaluate the performance of female Marines as part of research into opening combat-related job fields to women.
Colonel Nicole Mann was a test pilot before being selected by NASA to become an astronaut in 2013 and traveling to the International Space Station in 2022.
Lance Corporal Claudia Murphy graduated Infantry Mortarman course in late 2020, becoming the first female mortar Marine.
Captain Elizabeth Okoreeh-Baah was the first female to pilot the MV-22 Osprey, carrying out multiple combat operations in 2006.
Private First Class Maria Daum was born in a Siberian prison before she was adopted and moved to the United States at the age of four, then in 2017, she became the first female Marine to sign an infantry contract and complete the rigorous training at ITB in 2017.
And Captain Anneliese Satz became the first female Marine to fly the F35-B after completing the F-35B Lighting II Pilot Training Program in 2019. (U.S. Marine Corps graphic by Cpl. Keegan Bailey)
| Date Taken: | 03.09.2023 |
| Published: | 03-15-23 08:41 AM |
| Graphic ID: | 24481 |
| VIRIN: | 230309-M-NR794-1001 |
| Size: | 239.11 KB |
| Location: | QUANTICO, VIRGINIA, US |
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