While nurses treated patients at medical facilities in Vietnam and on hospital ships, no enlisted WAVES and few officers worked in country. LT Elizabeth G. Wiley, the first WAVES to serve in country, reported to Commander Naval Forces, Saigon in June 1967. WAVES worked with advancing technologies during the war.

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Photo #: NH 106773 Lieutenant Junior Grade Jean Szymanski, USNR Weged in a maze of electronic equipment, toggle switches and the staccato stutterings of an oscilloscope, Szymanski is the first Navy woman electrical enginner to graduate under NESEP (Navy Enlisted Scientific Education Program). She is pictured at the Aero Electronics Technology Department of the Naval Air Development Center, Johnsville, Pennsylvania., March 1968. NHHC Collection Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 605

Photo #: NH 106774 Color Guard, Naval Station, San Diego, California The look of the station's Color Guard was enhanced by the volunteer of four WAVES in February 1969. The WAVES were: (left to right): Yeoman Third Class Shirley Makowski, USN Seaman Gerry Bittner, USN Seaman Apprentice Marge Hite, USN Seaman Apprentice Penette Roy, USN NHHC Collection Online Image: 94KB; 740 x 605

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