; Whereas female Marines trained at Hunter College and Camp Lejeune and on February 23, 1949, the 3d Recruit Training Battalion at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, was reactivated for training non-veteran female Marines—fifty female recruits formed the first all-female platoon of Marines to take a six-week training course, led by Captain Margaret Henderson; Whereas although African Americans were given the opportunity to enlist in the Marine Corps in 1942, the Corps remained segregated until President Harry S. Truman issued Executive Order 9981 on July 26, 1948, to desegregate the Armed Forces; Whereas, in January 1949, Annie E. Graham and Ann Estelle Lamb became the first African-American females to enlist in the Marine Corps; Whereas, in the summer of 1949, the first Women Officers Training Class was held at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, and the quota of seven Regular commissions were given upon completion of the class; Whereas, in addition to integrating women into the Regular Marine Corps, a strong women’s Reserve was also developed with the first Women’s Reserve platoon being activated on April 14, 1949; Whereas, within fifteen months, all thirteen Women’s Reserve platoons were mobilized in response to the Korean Crisis; Whereas, in April 1960, Master Gunnery Sergeant Geraldine M. Moran became the first female Marine promoted to the highest enlisted rank, E–9; Whereas, in 1967, President Johnson signed a law to repeal the limits on the number of women in the Armed Forces, and Master Sergeant Barbara Jean Dulinsky became the first of thirty-six female Marines to serve in a combat zone, when she was assigned to United States Military Assistance Command Vietnam combat operations center in Saigon; Whereas, in the 1970s, the majority of billets were opened to women, including to attend the Drill Instructor Academy, and, in 1977, the first co-ed Basic School class commenced with 22 females