The president signed into law a bill which names a new VA clinic in Ventura County after a groundbreaking aviator.
The VA's Community-Based Outpatient Clinic in Ventura will be named after Navy Captain Rosemary Bryant Mariner.
She was one of the first woman to graduate from the Navy's flight school. Mariner flew more than a dozen types of aircraft during her career, including a number of combat planes. And, she was the first female aviator to be stationed on an aircraft carrier.
Democratic Congresswoman Julia Brownly pushed for construction of the new clinic in Ventura County. It offers a number of services veterans previously had to go to Los Angeles to receive. She also introduced the legislation to name the clinic after Mariner.
