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Title
C.J
.
Scarlet
with
M16
rifle
Date
Undated
Subject headings
United States. Marine Corps--Women
United States--History--1945-
Era
Post-Vietnam, Panama, Grenada (1975-1989)
Service branch
Marines
Item description
C.J
.
Scarlet
holds
an
M16
while
wearing
camouflage
fatigues
.
Veteran's name
Scarlet, C.J. Gray Grafton
Veteran's biography
C.J
.
Gray
Grafton
Scarlet
(b
.
1961)
, of
Camp
Pendleton
,
California
,
served
as a
photojournalist
in the
United
States
Marine
Corps
from
1981-1986
.
C.J
.
Gray
Grafton
Scarlet
was
born
13
April
1961
at
Camp
Pendleton
in
California
. Her
father
was a
career
United
States
Marine
and
Scarlet's
family
lived
in
several
places
during
her
childhood
,
before
settling
in
Mena
,
Arkansas
.
After
graduating
from
high
school
in
1979
,
Scarlet
joined
the
Young
Adult
Conservation
Corps
, a
division
of the
U.S
.
Forest
Service
,
where
she
worked
building
trails
and
planting
trees
and
received
training
as a
fire
fighter
.
Scarlet
attended
Fort
Smith
Community
College
in
Arkansas
for a
short
time
, but
after
experiencing
a
sexual
assault
and
becoming
very
depressed
, she
decided
to
move
back
home
to
Mena
.
To
pull
herself
out
of
depression
,
Scarlet
was
encouraged
by her
father
to
talk
with a
U.S
.
Marine
Corps
recruiter
.
After
completing
the
Armed
Services
Vocational
Aptitude
Battery
(ASVAB)
she
enlisted
for
six
years
as a
photojournalist
.
On
13
April
1981
,
Scarlet
began
boot
camp
at
Marine
Corps
Recruit
Depot
Parris
Island
,
South
Carolina
. She was
assigned
to the
first
platoon
to
provide
combat
training
for
women
, and was
selected
as
Honor
Graduate
.
Scarlet
was then
sent
to
Defense
Information
School
(DINFOS)
at
Fort
Benjamin
Harrison
,
Indiana
for
journalism
training
,
after
which
she was
assigned
to
Camp
Pendleton
,
California
,
where
she
worked
as a
beat
reporter
for
Marine
Air
Group
39
(MAG-39)
.
Within
eight
months
of
being
at
Camp
Pendleton
,
Scarlet
received
a
meritorious
promotion
to
sergeant
. She also
married
her
husband
,
another
photojournalist
in the
Marines
, and in
late
March
1984
her
first
son
was
born
.
In
1985
,
Scarlet
and her
husband
received
orders
to
Marine
Corps
Logistics
Base
Albany
,
Georgia
. In
January
1986
,
having
been
diagnosed
with
auto-immune
diseases
lupus
and
scleroderma
,
Scarlet
was
medically
discharged
from the
Marine
Corps
. In
January
1994
,
Scarlet
moved
to
North
Carolina
and
began
work
at a
child
advocacy
center
in
Elizabeth
City
. In
October
1995
, she
became
Director
of
Victims
Issues
for the
N.C
.
Attorney
General's
Office
. In
August
2016
,
Scarlet
became
President
of the
Board
of
Directors
for
Evidence
Vault
,
Inc
.
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
WV0590 C.J. Gray Grafton Scarlet Papers
Collection summary
July
2015
oral
history
interview
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COPYRIGHT
. This
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.
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holder
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for
permission
to
reuse
.
Object ID
WV0590.6.002
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/
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