Cpl. Margarita K. Palli, a Yarmouth, Maine, native,

Cpl. Margarita K. Palli, a Yarmouth, Maine, native, right, and Lance Cpl. Viviana R. Martinez, a Yuba City, California, native, hand out goods to local community members Nov. 13, 2013, at Yogi Park, Okinawa, Japan. Martinez and Palli volunteered and subsequently selected to participate in the Ground Combat Element Integrated Task Force, a battalion comprised of 500 Marines, a fourth of them being females, for a yearlong volunteer program designed to evaluate female Marines under combat arms predeployment conditions. Palli is a personnel clerk with Headquarters and Support Battalion, Marine Corps Installations Pacific-Marine Corps Base Camp Butler. Martinez is a supply administration and operations specialist with Marine Wing Communications Squadron 18, Marine Air Control Group 18, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III Marine Expeditionary Force. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Diamond N. Peden/Released)