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Lance Corporal Callahan Brown, born 1994, is one of the first three female infantry Marines. 

Marine’s officials announced on 1/3/2017 that 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, will receive 3 women, including Lance Corporal Brown, designated to serve in the following roles: rifleman, machine gunner and mortar Marine.

Lance Corporal Callahan Brown spent months in co-ed training at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, before moving west to Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, for a series of combat assessments in grimy field conditions. She recently told the press;

“ I volunteered not only to broaden my horizons but also to help out my leadership skills and to show America that women can be in infantry if they put their mind to it. It was important to me because a lot of people in the military and out, they’re basing everything on opinions, and we’re able to give good information and show that we can actually, statistically do this.”

Sources:

• http://www.stripes.com/news/marines-1st-women-in-the-infantry-to-join-camp-lejeune-battalion-1.447332
• http://www.jdnews.com/news/20170105/marines-make-history-as-first-women-to-join-infantry
• http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/4/marine-corps-2017-first-female-infantry-heading-to/
• http://usmclife.com/2017/01/first-female-infantry-marines-joining-lejeune-battalion-week/
• https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/story/military/careers/2014/11/29/marines-women-in-combat-qa/19570997/
• http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/military/sdut-usmc-reports-women-combat-research-2015oct15-htmlstory.html
• http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/01/05/us/ap-us-marines-women-infantry.html

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