MARCH OF THE WOMEN MARINES: COLONEL RUTH CHENEY STREETER

摘要

If that letter came out of the blue, Colonel Ruth Cheney Streeter's selection to become the first director of the U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve-as she recalls in her Naval Institute oral historycame out of the deeper blue. Streeter was a happily married mother of four in her mid-40s when she earned her commercial pilot's license in 1940. With World War Ⅱ looming, she wanted to fly for the military, but the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) rejected her repeated applications: "Too old."