Title	[Kate I. Germano]
Date	Undated
Subject headings	United States. Marine Corps--Women Iraq War, 2003-2011
Era	Gulf War (1990-2000) War on Terror, OEF, OIF (2001-Present)
Service branch	Marines
Item description	Kate I. Germano shakes hands with another Marine.
Veteran's name	Germano, Kate I.
Veteran's biography	Kate I. Germano (b. 1973), of El Paso, Texas, served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps from 1996-2016. In 2003, she deployed to Iraq as Adjutant with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. Some of her other assignments included command of recruiting station San Diego, Marine aide de camp for the Secretary of the Navy, and command of 4th Recruit Training Battalion, Marine Corps Depot, Parris Island, SC., where she was controversially relieved of that command after a year. Germano ended her career as a Special Projects Officer at the Washington Navy Yard.
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	WV0626 Kate I. Germano Papers
Collection summary	November 2016 Oral History Interview, digital photographs. Germano's 2018 book Fight Like a Girl: The Truth Behind How Females Are Trained, co-written with Kelly Kennedy and published by Prometheus Books, has been catalogued separately as part of the WVHP monograph reference collection.
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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	WV0626.6.001
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/

[Kate I. Germano]

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