United States
Marines have to be
able to carry one
another if necessary.
USMC Cpl. Gabrielle
Green hefts a fellow
marine as they ready
for deployment on
a Navy ship at Camp
Lejeune, North Car-
olina. Of the 38,000
recruits who enter the
corps each year, about
3,500 are women—
or, in USMC phrasing,
“female marines.”