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Making history across the services…

First female U.S. First female U.S. First female to complete the

Army helicopter pilot Marine Corps enlistee Navy Rescue Swimmer School

Then-2nd Lt. Opha May Johnson
Sally Murphy was the first female
sits in the cock- U.S. Marine Corps
pit of a UH-1 enlistee, among
Huey. Murphy 300 other women
became the who signed up on
first female U.S. August 13, 1918.
Army helicop- She joined the
ter pilot, after Marine Corps Re-
graduating from serve at the age of
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flight school at 39 and went on to Then-Petty Officer Kelly Mogk receives an orienta-
Fort Rucker, Ala- do clerical work at tion flight in gratitude for her actions as a U.S. Coast
bama on June 4, Headquarters Ma- Guard rescue swimmer, which saved the life of a U.S.
1974. She went rine Corps, where Air Force pilot following an aircraft mishap over the
on to command she managed the ocean. Mogk joined the Coast Guard in 1984 and be-
multiple units records of other came the first female to complete the Navy Rescue
and retired as a female Marines who Swimmer School in May 1986. She retired in 2009 at
colonel in 1999. joined after she did. the rank of Lieutenant Commander.
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