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[USMC Dress blue uniform, circa 1987]

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Title	[USMC Dress blue uniform, circa 1987]
Date	1987
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	United States--History--1945- United States. Marine Corps--Women
Era	Post-Vietnam, Panama, Grenada (1975-1989)
Service branch	Marines
Item description	Marine Corps Dress Blue uniform, made of blue gabardine wool, with the U.S. Marines emblem on each lapel. It has four buttons down the front, one on each shoulder tab, and three on each of the decorative sleeve tabs. The buttons' design has an eagle with wings outspread, holding an anchor with rope in its talons, and 13 stars surround the top. Red piping surrounds the edges of the shoulder tabs, collar, and sleeve tabs. A decorative breast pocket adorns the left side of the coat. On each shoulder, Jenny Barker's rank insignia of staff sergeant is indicated. There are two diagonal stripes on each sleeve (each stripe signifying four years of service in the Marine Corps.) Barker served nine and 1/2 years and would have received a third stripe after twelve years of service.
Veteran's name	Barker, Dorothy Virginia Kirwan
Veteran's biography	Dorothy "Jenny" Barker (b. 1959) of Greensboro, North Carolina, served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1979 to 1988 . Dorothy "Jenny" Barker was born in 1959 and is a native of Greensboro, N.C. She served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1979 to 1988 and was a heavy equipment operator at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.
Type	image
Original format	textiles
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0417 Jenny Barker Papers
Collection summary	Dress Blue Jacket, White Dress Shirt, Collar Tie, Dress Blue Skirts, Sweater "Wooly Pully" white dress uniform peaked cap, summer garrison cap, winter olive green garrison cap, shirt tabs, wool scarf, blue dress uniform jacket, pair of black dress shoes. photograph of "Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island SC Platoon 6A and 6B.
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Additional rights information	NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID	WV0417.8.001
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
OCLC number	900817388

[USMC Dress blue uniform, circa 1987]

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[USMC Dress blue uniform, circa 1987]