Two women working to keep New York Harbor safe are also blazing a trail as officers in the U.S. Coast Guard.
Captain Zeita Merchant is the commanding Officer of Sector New York.
But Merchant confesses she initially had no desire to join until her junior year of college when a recruiter explained how she could make a career out of it. Twin sisters from Brooklyn were the first women to join the Coast Guard in 1918, but still it took 55 years for females to receive active duty status."Everywhere I served I saw other women but they were juniors, there were no senior African American women in the Coast Guard at that point in time. So I really couldn't see what I wanted to be," Merchant said.Right now the Coast Guard academy is 40 percent women, a record.
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