Unidentified female Coast Guard Academy cadet stands with another cadet on a boat while holding a wooden steering wheel.

Unidentified female Coast Guard Academy cadet stands at atttention. The cadet wears the full dress uniform.

Unidentified female Coast Guardsmen pilots a small rescue boat.

Two unidentified Coast Guardsmen examining nautical charts. Cap on hook is embroidered with "US Station Cape Henlopen."

Coast Guard Aviator Vivian Crea in cockpit. Crea later was promoted to the first woman Vice Commandant of the Coast Guard.

Vivien Crea was the first female commanding officer of a U.S. Coast Guard Air Station in 1992 and the first Rear Admiral in 2000, and the first female Vice Commandant (th[...]

Kelly Mogk Larson was the first woman to complete The U.S. Navy's Rescue Swimmer School in 1986, becoming the first female ASM/RSS in the Coast Guard.

Unknown Female Coast Guardsman on a search and rescue boat. She is wearing a cap embroidered with "Humboldt Bay."

Unknown Female Coast Guardsman using a boat's communications handset

United States Coast Guard Reserve Port Security Specialist Sandy Mitten in the Persian Gulf to support Operation Desert Shield in September 1990.