Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-06-18
u. S. Marine Corps
Women's Reserve

BE Marine Free Marine to
Fight"
With that slogan the United States
Marine Corps Women's Reserve was
inaugurated in February. Since that
time hundreds of women have enlisted
and completed their indoctrination
training at the Naval Training School,
Hunter College, N. Y, and have taken
the place of fighting Marine at one
of the marine bases or posts.
Scores of officer candidates have
completed their training at the Naval
Reserve Midshipmen's School, North
ampton, Mass, which comprises both
Smith College and Mt. Holyoke, and
are now directing the activities of the
United States Marine Corps Women's
Reserve.
For general service in the Women's
Reserve of the Marine Corps the re-
quirements are:
Education, two years of high school
or two years of business school. Age
limits, 20 to IS inclusive. Other re-
quirements as to citizenship, children,
marital status, height and weight are
the same as those prescribed for ap-
plicants for officer candidate training,
listed below.
These requirements, for officer can
didate training, are:
Education, college degree, or two
years of college and two years of &C
ceptable business experience. Age lin
its, at date of enlistment, 20 to 40
inclusive. All applicants must be citi-
zens of the United States. In the case
of naturalized citizen there is no
limitation as to the time elapsed since
the naturalization became effective.
No applicant will be accepted who has
children under IS years of age. No
applicant will be accepted whose hus-
band is member of the u. S. Marine
Corps. Applicants may marry, upon
completion of all training, men in the
Marine Corps, civil life, or any other
branch of the armed service. Physical
qualifications, height, not less than five
feet; weight, not less than IS pounds.
Certain other physical requirements
are also required.
Montana women, interested in en-
listing in the U. S. Marine Corps
Women's Reserve, should call at one
OF the marine stations within the state.
Application blanks and other material
can be secured by writing to one of
these stations However, an interested
applicant must present the completed
application, in person, to one of these
stations as the preliminary step in her
enlistment.
United States Marine Corps head
quarters for Montana are located at %
West Granite street, Butte, with Lieu
tenant Gray P. Minor officer in charge.
U. S. Marine Corps substations are To-
Gated in the Post Office building, Great
Falls; Post Office building, Missoula,
and Securities building, Billings.
The duties of the trained Women's
reserve are varied and many. They
include administrative, clerical, steno-
graphic, Photographic, laboratory, aer-
ographlc, aircraft mechanic, to mem
ton a few.
The list of civilian fields in which
the Marine Corps is particularly in
terested, and which is listed on the
application blank, include accountant.
aerographer, baker, bookkeeper, clerk.
cook, cryptographer, craftsman, cleo
trician, hairdresser, hostess house at
tendant, laundry worker, librarian.
LINK trainer, mechanic-aircraft, mes
senser, messwoman, motion picture
operators, motor mechanics, office ma
cnine operators, painters-spray gun,
parachute Triggers, passenger car and
Light truck driver, personnel, photop-
rapher, post exchange clerks, radio
operators, radio repairman, stenogra-
pher, typist, stock clerk, storekeeper-
aviation, telegrapher, telephone oper-
ator, teletype operator, theatre usher.
However, it is stressed that appli-
cants need not have specialized train
ing in order to volunteer. The CORDS
desires women of high caliber who can
be trained for their duties after thew
are enlisted. A job classification system
has been established for the Women
Marines which parallels that used for
the men.
At both the Naval Reserve Midshin-
mems schools in Northampton, Mass.
where officer candidates are trained.
and at the Naval Training School at
Bronx, N. Y, where enlisted personnel
receive instruction, each woman will
be given an aptitude test to determine
her experience, education, hobbies,
linguistic ability and other data which
will be readily available when she is
called upon to replace a male Marine
assigned to combat duty.
Ranks and pay in the U. S. Marine
Corps Women's Reserve will be the
same as those for men of the corps.
1t will be possible for women to work
their way up through the enlisted ranks
and into the commissioned grades,
Uniforms for the Women's Reserve
are of the same material as uniforms
of the men of the corps. Patterned by
an expert designer, they are trim,
smart and attractive. For summer, the
work uniform of green and white
striped seersucker will be worn by the
Women's Reserve.
Members of the U. S. Marine Corps
Women's Reserve will serve within
the continental limits of the United