Marines gathered at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery this week to celebrate 100 years of women serving in the Marine Corps and to remember how Opha May Johnson paved the way as the first woman to enlist in the Marine Corps on August 13, 1918.

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