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Title	[Rosie Noel in Marine utility uniform, circa 2005]
Date	2005
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	Iraq War, 2003-2011 Afghan War, 2001- United States. Marine Corps--Women
Era	War on Terror, OEF, OIF (2001-Present)
Service branch	Marines
Item description	Rosie Noel poses on a beach in her Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniform in woodland camouflage, circa 2005.
Veteran's name	Noel, Rosie Grosshans
Veteran's biography	Rosie Grosshans Noel (b. 1967) of Warren, Michigan served in aviation electronics of the Marine Corps from 1988 to 2009. Rosie Grosshans Noel was born in 1967 in Warren, Michigan, and grew up in Michigan. After graduating from high school in 1985, she went to Northern Michigan University. Upon graduation, she enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1988 . Noel attended basic training at Parris Island, South Carolina. She was then sent to Millington, Tennessee for training from August of 1988 to February of 1989. Her next training, in specialized aviation, was in Lemoore, California. Her first duty station was at Parris Island, where she worked as an aviation electrician. While there, she received training in micro-miniature repair, which led to a Military Occupational Specialty conversion from aviation electrician to micro-miniature repair technician. Noel remained at Parris Island from 1989 to 1996, and married a fellow Marine . Noel then went to Pensacola, Florida in 1996, as an instructor in aviation electronics. She then returned to Parris Island for drill instructor duty from 1999 to 2001. Her next duty station was Beaufort Air Station to be co-located with her husband. She was then assigned to Japan for ten months in 2004, then returned to Beaufort Air Station, at which time she and her husband divorced. Noel requested to be assigned to a forward unit deploying to Iraq, Marine Aircraft Wing 26, which arrived in Iraq in February 2005 for a year-long deployment at Al Asad Airbase . On August 27th, 2005, approximately halfway through that deployment, Noel was wounded by shrapnel from indirect mortar fire. She received medical care at Al Asad, and was airlifted to Balad Air Base. Though she was going to be moved to Landstuhl, Germany and then Bethesda, Maryland, she requested to return to Al Asad and did so, returning on the 28th of August and remaining to complete her deployment . After her deployment to Iraq, Noel returned to the United States and served until 2009, when she retired with the rank of master gunnery sergeant. As of 2011, she worked for the Second Marine Division Association as a civilian.
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	WV0516 Rosie Grosshans Noel Papers
Collection summary	2011 oral history interview and copies 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	WV0516.6.005
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	900815111

[Rosie Noel in Marine utility uniform, circa 2005]

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