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Title	[Formal military portrait of Gail S. Horn]
Date	Undated
Subject headings	United States--History--1945- United States. Marine Corps--Women
Era	Post-Vietnam, Panama, Grenada (1975-1989) Gulf War (1990-2000) War on Terror, OEF, OIF (2001-Present)
Service branch	Marines--Women Marines
Item description	Formal military portrait of Gail S. Horn. in her Officer Service Uniform.
Veteran's name	Horn, Gail S. Enter
Veteran's biography	Gail S. Enter Horn (b. 1957) served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1984-2009. She retired with the rank of master gunnery sergeant. Gail S. Horn was born in 1957 and grew up in New Ulm, Minnesota. After completing high school in 1976, she attended Hutchison Area Vocational Technical Institute for a year, and then worked as a clerk. She married a member of the Marine Corps in 1978, and was a military spouse. Her husband was assigned to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, and then Kansas City. Horn signed up for delayed entry into the Marine Corps in 1983, attending boot camp from January through March of 1984 . Horn then attended various training courses in avionics, as well as NCO (Non-Commissioned Officer) School. Her first duty assignment was Marine Corps Air Station New River, in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Then, in 1987, she was assigned to Marine Corps Air Base Cherry Point, in Havelock, North Carolina. In 1991, she went to drill instructor duty, completing training and eventually becoming a senior drill instructor. Upon completing that tour of duty in 1995, at which time she was in the process of divorcing, Horn was assigned to Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, North Carolina. From there, her unit deployed to Iwakuni, Japan in 1996 for nine months. Upon her return, Horn requested to return to Japan, and was sent to Okinawa for three years, this time bringing her four year old daughter . Horn was then assigned to Headquarters Marine Corps as an enlisted career counselor, at Quantico, Virginia, and was there when 9/11 occurred. She was then assigned again to Marine Corps Air Station New River. From there, she did a seven month deployment to Iraq, from June of 2004 to January of 2005, based at Camp Al-Taqaddum, also known as “TQ”. She retired in 2008 as a sergeant major and master gunnery sergeant.
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	WV0514 Gail S. Enter Horn Papers
Collection summary	April 2000 oral history interview, "Diamond in the Ruff" class 4029 flag circa 1993-1994, graduation invitation, photographs, cd of photographs
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0514.6.009
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	914300588

[Formal military portrait of Gail S. Horn]

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