H. R. 7698 
One Hundred Seventeenth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE SECOND SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, 
the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-two 
An Act 
To designate the outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Ventura, 
California, as the ‘‘Captain Rosemary Bryant Mariner Outpatient Clinic’’. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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 enroll 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 aircraft. 
(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 percent 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 advocate for 
women in the military, leading the Women Military Aviators 
and working with Congress and the Department of Defense 
to lift restrictions barring women from flying in combat. 
(8) Captain Mariner attended the National War College 
in the District of Columbia, earning a master’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
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Tennessee’s Center for the Study of War and Society, and 
taught military history in UT’s history department for 15 years. 
(12) Captain Mariner passed away from ovarian cancer 
on January 24, 2019, in Knoxville, Tennessee. 
(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 military spouses rec-
ommended that the Ventura Medical Center be named in honor 
of Captain Rosemary Bryant Mariner. 
SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF CAPTAIN ROSEMARY BRYANT MARINER OUT-
PATIENT CLINIC. 
(a) DESIGNATION.—The outpatient clinic of the Department 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, regulation, 
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’’. 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.