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Show jj.i.iij n . mp mT" ii l "-Htt-"-.1 .-. -v.:rer:v?:-- V-,' , , v:.,. 7- v :' - ' V -: ' 7;:'A,7 i '-H-'i'-' ' .-.?F1:;-' . .'. -:: v? im?': ;.:".f. s? r i t I - ;tf;;V; '; - J';-- fv'- !-:. 'tlKiA ; . ; . r SERGEANT HELEN OLSEN ... of Los Angeles, California, is one of over 14,000 Marine Corps Women Reserves who have freed combat Marines to fight during the past year. Sunday, February 13 first anniversary of the Marine Corps Women's Reserve, climaxes a week of celebration of the year's progress. Sergeant Olsen's job is to test radios installed on mobile combat equipment at the Depot of Supplies, San Francisco, California. Marine Corps Women Wait First Anniversary of Founding Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina, many went on to specialized spe-cialized schools located all over the country to receive highly technical training. Aerographers and parachute riggers were trained train-ed in 12 weeks' courses at Lake-hurst, Lake-hurst, N. J. and radio operators and mechanics received training at - three different schools . . at Omaha, Nebraska; Madison, Wisconsin, Wis-consin, and Oxford, Ohio. Numerous advanced schools were established at Camp Lejeune alone . . . Cooks and Bakers , school, where the women learned the principles of quantity cooking; cook-ing; Quartermaster school, where they learned the complicated Marine Ma-rine Corps Quartermaster admin-listration; admin-listration; Motor Transport school, where they learned to drive and repair jeeps, trucks and ambu1 lances. Non-commissioned officers were given special training at the First Sergeants' school at Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, Pennsylvania, and at the non-commissioned officers' school, also at Camp Lejeune. With this training the women ( Marines have taken over many , specialized jobs of the men of the corps. For their work they have won the respect of their brother Marines, the praise of their commanding officers. Members of the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve celebrate their first anniversary February 13. For the Marine women, their first year has been of continuous progress. At 50 different stations throughout the country they have taken over scores of jobs that were holding combat-trained Marines Ma-rines from duty on the fighting front. They are serving at training bases from Quantico, Virginia, to ! San Diego, California; at air stations from Santa Barbara, California, to Cherry Point, North Carolina, and at Marine Corps headquarters at Washington, D. C. to the department of the Pacific in San Francisco, California. At these Marine stations they have gone to work in mess halls, airplane hangars and radio rooms. They have rigged parachutes, Instructed pilots in blind flying and given them landing and takeoff take-off instructions. They have taken many office jobs, typing, filing and making muster roll cards. They have become electricians, carpenters, plumbers and welders every sort of an expert that was needed to replace a man for combat duty. Fifty per cent of the Marine women's personnel has been assigned as-signed to duties with the division of aviation. IFor all these jobs the women have been thoroughly trained. First receiving indoctrination at |
