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- I'm a female.

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I'm a female in an organization

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where it's 93% male dominated.

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I'm always gonna be seen as a female.

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However, my professionalism,

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my understanding of my job,

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technical and tactical proficiency,

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is what's gonna set me
aside from every individual,

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male or female, in this organization.

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So I enlisted September 23rd, 2001,

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just after September 11th,

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so you can imagine how
my mom felt about that.

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But I decided to continue with it

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because I was committed.

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I knew this is something
that I wanted to do

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and I think that, that
probably just made me

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encouraged even more to
continue with this organization.

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For women who are thinking
about becoming Marines,

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or Marine Officers, just do it.

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Come in, be a part of the organization,

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and be a part of the
change that you wanna see

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in the organization, help
influence this organization

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in the direction that you wanna see it.