The first class of female recruits to enter the "regular" Coast Guard after successfully completing 10 weeks of basic training at TRACEN Cape May, Recruit Class Sierra-89 (1974). Scan provided by TSGT Finis R. Williams, USAF, whose mother, Veronica Lynn Stanley, the first African American woman to graduate with these other pioneering women in Sierra-89. She in the second to the last row, and second from left.