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Marines with November Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, stand around the Molly Marine statue for an award ceremony on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C. Dec 16, 2020. The Molly Marine award is given to the Marine voted to best exemplify the core values of honor, courage, and commitment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Michelle Brudnicki) - Marines with November Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, stand around the Molly Marine statue for an award ceremony on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C. Dec 16, 2020. The Molly Marine award is given to the Marine voted to best exemplify the core values of honor, courage, and commitment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Michelle Brudnicki)

Molly Marine

Seventy seven years ago, the statue known as ‘Molly Marine’ was originally commissioned by Marine Technical Sgt. Charles Gresham, a recruiter, in hopes to increase enlistment of females into the military during World War II. At that time, American service men needed to be out in battle. Women were beginning to join and take over their jobs on the home front to “free a man to fight”. Molly Marine was the first statue of a woman in uniform, and it was erected on Nov. 10, 1943 in New Orleans, La. This was the year the womens’ reserve was activated as well as the 168th Marine Corps’ birthday. Two more statues were raised, one in 2000 in Quantico Va., where female officers are made, and one in 1999 on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island...

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