SPARS

SPARS
For the various meanings of "spar", see Spar (disambiguation).

SPARS was the United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve, created 23 November 1942 with the signing of Public Law 773 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The name is a contraction of the Coast Guard motto: Semper Paratus and its English translation Always Ready. The name also refers to a spar in nautical usage.

Like the other women's reserves such as the Women's Army Corps and the WAVES, it was created to free men from stateside service in order to fight overseas.

Its first director was Captain Dorothy C. Stratton, and she is credited with creating the name for the organization. The Coast Guard closely followed the Navy WAVES model, with officer training at the Coast Guard Academy. Their goal was 1000 officers and 10,000 enlisted. 1,914 women were trained in boot camp at Hunter College's Bronx campus.[1]

The cutter USCGC Spar (WLB-206) is named after the SPARS.

Notes

  1. ^ Janet Butler Munch, "Making Waves in the Bronx: The Story of the U.S. Naval Training School (Wr) At Hunter College," Bronx County Historical Society Journal, March 1993, Vol. 30 Issue 1, pp 1-15

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