Title	[Formal Portrait of Carol Lousie Pollack]
Date	Undated
Subject headings	United States--History--1969- United States. Marine Corps--Women
Era	Vietnam Era (1964-1974)
Service branch	Marines--Women Marines
Item description	Formal headshot of Carol Louise Pollack.
Veteran's name	Pollack, Carol Lousie
Veteran's biography	Captain Carol Louise Pollack (b. 1939) served in administration in the United States Marine Corps from 1964-1976 . Carol Louise Pollack was born 10 October 1939 in Mankato, Minnesota. When she was six years old, her family moved to Houston, Texas. In 1959, a year after graduating from high school, Pollack began attending Lamar State College of Technology in Beaumont, Texas, where she earned degrees in art and secondary education . In 1964, Pollack joined the United States Marine Corps. She attended Officer Candidates School (OCS) and The Basic School in Quantico, Virginia . Pollack's first duty station was U.S. Marine Corps Recruiting Depot in San Diego, California, where her assignments were Training Aid Officer, General Education Development Officer, and Top Secret Material Control Officer. After three years, Pollack was transferred to U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in North Carolina, where, again, she worked as Training Aid Officer. Pollack was also in charge of the link trainers, or flight simulators, coordinating scheduling . Pollack was later stationed at U.S. Marine Corps Base Hawaii, on the island of O'ahu, where she worked for two years as Top Secret Material Control Officer. She also acted as an Awards Officer, making sure combat veterans received their appropriate decorations. Pollack's final duty station was U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, in Jacksonville, North Carolina where she worked as company commander of a female Marines company . In 1977, after thirteen years of service, Pollack was required to leave the U.S. Marine Corps because she had not made field grade, or rank of major. This was during an era where there were very few officer slots available for women. She went on to work for the United States Housing and Urban Development Department in Fort Worth, Texas.
Type	Image
Original format	photographs
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	WV0562 Carol Louise Pollack Oral History
Collection summary	The April 2014 oral history has not yet been transcribed.
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Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0562.6.001
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	914300452

[Formal Portrait of Carol Lousie Pollack]

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