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Thursday, December 06, 2012

One of first female submarine officers pinned at Kings Bay

Marquette Leveque |The ceremony itself took no more than five minutes. But military history was made Wednesday at Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base when Lt. j.g. Marquette Leveque became one of the first Navy female officers in history to be deemed qualified to operate a submarine.

“Obviously, it is a huge honor,” Leveque said after receiving her “dolphin” pin. “But quite honestly, I just go to work every day and do my job just like my male counterparts have.

It just feels good to finally be a submariner.”
Leveque, 24, is a chemistry and radiological controls assistant assigned to the USS Wyoming’s Gold Crew.

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