SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) As of January 2021, of the 1,255 health 
care facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 
two are named after women. 
(2) Rosemary Ann Bryant was born on April 2, 
1953, in Harlingen, Texas, to Captain Cecil Bryant 
and Constance Boylan Bryant, a World War II Navy 
nurse. 
(3) Captain Mariner was the first woman to en-
roll in the aeronautics program at Purdue University 
in 1971. 
(4) Captain Mariner joined the Navy in 1973, 
and after graduating from officer candidate school 
that year, she became a member of the Navy’s first 
flight-training class for women. 
(5) In 1974, Captain Mariner was one of six 
women to earn her wings and in 1975 she became 
the first female Naval aviator to fly a jet attack air-
craft. 
(6) In July 1990, Captain Mariner was named 
commander of Navy ‘‘Tactical Electronic Warfare 
Squadron 34’’ at Naval Air Station Point Mugu in 
Ventura County, California. The unit was 30 per-
cent female and made Captain Mariner the first 
woman to command an operational air squadron,
even though women were still barred from flying 
combat missions. 
(7) Captain Mariner became a passionate advo-
cate for women in the military, leading the Women 
Military Aviators and working with Congress and 
the Department of Defense to lift restrictions bar-
ring women from flying in combat. 
(8) Captain Mariner attended the National War 
College in the District of Columbia, earning a mas-
ter’s degree in national security strategy and served 
on the staff of the Joint Chiefs at the Pentagon, and 
a professor of joint military studies at the National 
War College. 
(9) Captain Mariner retired from the Navy in 
1997, and moved to Tennessee with her husband 
Commander Tommy Mariner and her daughter 
Emmalee. 
(10) During her Naval career Captain Mariner 
logged 17 landings on aircraft carriers and more 
than 3500 flight hours in 15 different aircraft. 
(11) In retirement, Captain Mariner continued 
her service in her community as a resident scholar 
in the University of Tennessee’s Center for the 
Study of War and Society, and taught military his-
tory in UT’s history department for 15 years.
(12) Captain Mariner passed away from ovarian 
cancer on January 24, 2019, in Knoxville, Ten-
nessee. 
(13) In honor of Captain Mariner, the United 
States Navy conducted its first all-female flyover at 
the funeral service for Captain Mariner on Saturday, 
February 2, 2019, in Maynardville, Tennessee. 
(14) In July 2021, a panel of Ventura County 
members of the Armed Forces, veterans, and mili-
tary spouses recommended that the Ventura Medical 
Center be named in honor of Captain Rosemary 
Bryant Mariner. 
SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF CAPTAIN ROSEMARY BRYANT 
MARINER OUTPATIENT CLINIC. 
(a) DESIGNATION.—The outpatient clinic of the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs in Ventura, California, shall 
after the date of the enactment of this Act be known and 
designated as the ‘‘Captain Rosemary Bryant Mariner 
Outpatient Clinic’’. 
(b) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, map, reg-
ulation, document, paper, or other record of the United 
States to the facility referred to in subsection (a) shall
be deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘Captain Rosemary 
Bryant Mariner Outpatient Clinic’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives September 19, 
2022. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7698 
AN ACT 
To designate the outpatient clinic of the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs in Ventura, California, 
as the ‘‘Captain Rosemary Bryant Mariner Out-
patient Clinic’’.