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Lt.j.g. Jeanette Gracie Shin signs her oath of office at the Pentagon on July 22, 2004. She is the DoD’s first Buddhist chaplain.

Phyllis M. Daley became the first African American Navy Nurse.

The daughter of a Navy steward, Dr. Connie Mariano, born in the Philippines, joined the U.S. Navy Medical Corps in 1978 and graduated from the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine in 1981. In June 1992, Dr. Mariano became the first…