Tess Marcial, 460th Medical Group medical logistics contract specialist, encourages the children to write their own story during a Women’s History Month book reading March 18 at the Crested Butte Child Development Center, on Buckley Air Force Base. Esther Blake, an Air Force trailblazer for women, enlisted the first minute of the first hour of the first day regular United States Air Force duty was authorized for women on July 8, 1948. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Racheal E. Watson 
Tess Marcial, 460th Medical Group medical logistics contract specialist, asks questions to the children during a Women’s History Month book reading March 18 at the Crested Butte Child Development Center on Buckley Air Force Base. Between 1988 and 1994, Congress passed resolutions requesting and authorizing the President to proclaim March of each year as Women’s History Month. Annual proclamations from Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama have been issued designating the month of March as “Women’s History Month.” U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Racheal E. Watson 
Olivia Marcial, Women’s History Month volunteer reader, tells a story during a book reading March 18 at the Crested Butte Child Development Center on Buckley Air Force Base. During the month-long celebration, Team Buckley members honored the countless women who sacrificed and strived for equality. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Racheal E. Watson 
Tess Marcial, 460th Medical Group medical logistics contract specialist, reads to children about Women’s History Month March 18 at the Crested Butte Child Development Center on Buckley Air Force Base. The month recognized trailblazers of the past by honoring their legacies and pushing forward with the life lessons and powerful examples they set. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Racheal E. Watson
Women’s History Month: Trailblazing through history
