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1st 3 Female Marines Join Infantry Unit at Camp Lejeune, N.C.

January 05 2017

USA

The first three women with the infantry military specialty are about to join their unit at Camp Lejeune, N.C., reports the Marine Corps Times.

On Thursday, the three will join the 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, where they will serve in the following specialties: rifleman; machine gunner; and mortar Marine, said a spokesman for the II Marine Expeditionary Force.

The battalion already has a team of women leaders, including a logistics officer, motor transport officer and wire...

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