Kimbo Slice has died at the age of 42, it has been confirmed. MMA fighter Slice, real name Kevin Ferguson, was admitted to hospital in Coral Springs, Florida, with police reportedly asking his family for information after his admittance.
Women have been part of the Marines since 1918, and were deployed to Korea in the 1950s. âBy the height of the Vietnam war, there were about 2,700 women Marines served [sic.] both stateside and overseas,â according to the Women Marines Association.
The first woman to enlist in the Navy during World War I was Loretta Perfectus Walsh. She was the first woman allowed to serve in the Armed Forces as something other than a nurse. Loretta was sworn in as the Navy's first female Chief Petty Officer on 21 March 1917. She served briefly from 1917-1919, as women were automatically discharged from the military after the war effort ended. She fell victim to the influenza and later contracted tuberculosis.