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The Marine Corps opened its own schools for officer candidates and recruit training at Camp Lejeune in July 1943, under the command of Colonel John M. Arthur. Officer candidates and recruits in training at Navy facilities were transferred to Camp Lejeune, where over 15,000 women became Marines during the remainder of World War II. [30]
The Marine Corps Women's Reserve Band (MCWR Band) was a United States Marine Corps military band, unique in its all female composition, that served during the Second World War. The band was stationed at Camp Lejeune and included 43 members.
The 3rd Battalion, 9th Marines (3/9) is an infantry battalion of the United States Marine Corps.Formed during World War I it served until the early 1990s when it was redesignated as 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines (3/4) during a realignment and renumbering of the Marine Corps' infantry battalions, following the deactivation of the 9th Marine Regiment.
Lance Corporal Maria Frances Lauterbach [1] (() November 17, 1987 – December 14, 2007) of Vandalia, Ohio, [3] was a United States Marine who disappeared from Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, on December 14, 2007. [4] At the time of her disappearance, Lauterbach was eight months pregnant.
Image: Women marines, in non-combatant jobs, march into Camp LeJeune to take over for the Marines leaving to fight World War II in the 1940's. (Bettmann Archive via Getty Images)
Kelly Elizabeth Wilson became Alabama's first woman to have an Army military combat role (as a combat engineer). [289] Paige B. Hunter became the first female brigadier general in West Virginia National Guard history. [290] Jennifer Smith became the first female commanding officer of Field Medical Training Battalion-East. [291]
Twenty former residents of Camp Lejeune—all men who lived there during the 1960s and the 1980s—have been diagnosed with breast cancer. [13] In April 2009, the United States Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry withdrew a 1997 public health assessment at Camp Lejeune that denied any connection between the toxicants and illness. [44]
Nov. 8—From the 1950s through the mid-1980s, water at and around Camp Lejeune, a Marine base on the coast of North Carolina, was contaminated with numerous carcinogenic and harmful chemicals. In ...