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Loretta Reynolds

Marine Base Gets Its First Female General

For the first time ever, a woman is taking command at the nation’s premier Marine Corps training base. Brig. Gen. Loretta Reynolds will be the first female to run South Carolina’s  Parris Island in the base’s 96-year-history. Reynolds is no stranger to setting records. She is also the first female Marine to ever hold a command […]

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