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The first Native American woman to enlist in the Marine Corps Womens' Reserve, Matilda “Minnie” Spotted Wolf, described her experience in boot camp as "hard but not that hard" . Spotted Wolf served in the Marine Corps from 1943 until 1945. She was allowed to enlist by the U.S. military because film stars Audie Murphy and Richard Arlen had enlisted before her.
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