RUTBAH, Iraq – Reserve Marine Capt. Justin Martell (front, left), the battalion judge advocate for 2d Battalion, 25th Marines, makes his way to the courthouse on a joint foot patrol Feb. 5, 2009.

Members of a .30 caliber Machine Gun platoon of the First Provisional Marine Brigade are shown boarding ship in preparation for sailing for the Far East. The reserves comprised nearly 50% of the Marine Corps’ forces who fought to end the North Korean aggression. DEFENSE DEPT. PHOTO (MARINE CORPS) A1788

Women were once again needed in the Second World War. Pictured here are women in just one of the many jobs they performed, they are putting the finishing touches on a PBJ medium bomber. Atop the engine nacelles at left is Pfc Thelma O. Martin. Working on the cowling below her is PFC Ruth T. Dincau, while Pfc Eunice L. Anderson works on the propeller. Directing them from the ground is crew chief T/Sgt Selma “Rusty” Olson. Adjusting machine gun covers is PFC Bettie L. Smith. Sgt Margaret A. Engwald is in the cockpit and Pvt Carol C. Peters is crossing under the plane to the other side. Working on the landing gear are PFC Eleanor D. Moore and Pvt Frances V. Gulbransen. DEFENSE DEPT PHOTO (MARINE CORPS) 8927

Sergeant Alfred Shiani, shown here in the early 1930s, was one of many reservists to receive valor awards for their service in the First World War.

This trim Marine trio were early enlisters in the First Women’s Reserve that served during the First World War. PFC, Marry Kelly (left) of New Jersey, May O’Keefe and Ruth Spike, of New York City.

These are the eight women admitted as privates in the United States Marine Corps who are going to Washington as enlisted “stenos” in the office of the Marine Corps Adjutant. With Lieutenant George Kneller, who swore them in, they are from left to right: Violet Van Wagner, Brooklyn; Marie S. Schleight, Glendale, L.I.; Florence Wiedinger, Jersey City; Isabelle Balfour, Janet Kurgan, Edith Barton, and Helene Constance Dupont, whose husband is a sergeant in France. Mrs. Dupont and Miss Kurgan are sisters. DEFENSE DEPT PHOTO (MARINE CORPS) 530552

Members of the first Reserve unit formed at Brooklyn in 1916.

During World War I, Fitzhugh Buchanan served as a Sergeant in the 77th Company, 6th Machine Gun Battalion to fight in France. For his outstanding abilities, he was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant, with a Marine Corps Reserve Commission, in July of 1918. He survived the war to be discharged August of 1919.

311th Company, of Toledo, Ohio, in their 10th anniversary in 1938.