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The USCG has honored the Women's Reserve by naming two Coast Guard cutters after them, using the Spars nautical nickname. USCGC Spar was a 180-foot (55 m) seagoing buoy tender that was commissioned on June 12, 1944. She had a complement of six officers and 74 enlisted in 1945, and in 1966 her complement was four officers, two warrant officers ...
The Coast Guard Women's Reserve was ended and those in it were sent to the Coast Guard Reserve. [16] On December 7, 1973 Wanda May Parr and Margaret A. Blackman became the first female enlistees sworn into the regular Coast Guard, and Alice T. Jefferson became the first female commissioned officer sworn into the regular Coast Guard. [16]
The Women's Reserve of the Coast Guard Reserves (SPARs) is re-established by the President on 4 August 1949, and becomes effective on 1 November 1949. [34] [31] The U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps was established. [citation needed] The first African-American women enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. [1] The U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps was established. [1]
November 1: Enlistment of women in the Coast Guard was authorized for four-year tours of active duty under limited ratings. [18] November 30: Kati Garner qualified as the Navy's first female SCUBA diver. [57] [58] Legislation ended the Coast Guard Women's Reserve and women were integrated into the active duty Coast Guard and the Coast Guard ...
The Coast Guard Reserve has 6,293 men and women in service, most of them integrated directly with regular active duty Coast Guard units. [ 14 ] One of the significant organizational elements of the USCG Reserve are its Port Security Units, each PSU is staffed by 140 reservists and 6 active-duty personnel (one officer and 5 first-class petty ...
The U.S. Coast Guard appointed the first female Vice Commandant of the Coast Guard, making her the first woman in history to serve as a deputy service chief in any of the U.S. Armed Forces. [1] Vivien Crea became the first female Vice Commandant of the United States Coast Guard and the Coast Guard's first female vice admiral. [129]
Dorothy Constance Stratton (March 24, 1899 – September 17, 2006) is best known as the first director of the SPARS, the U.S. Coast Guard Women's Reserve.. In 1942, she became the first woman to be commissioned an officer in U.S. Coast Guard and is credited with giving its Women's Reserve program the name of SPARS, an acronym created from the Coast Guard motto, Semper Paratus, and its English ...
The Coast Guard has 8700 reservists [76] who normally drill two days a month and an additional 12 days of active duty each year, although many perform additional drill and active duty periods, to include those mobilized to extended active duty. Coast Guard reservists possess the same training and qualifications as their active duty counterparts ...