Clipping courtesy of Ron Ritchie. The story announces that women would be allowed to apply for Officer Candidate School starting in 1973. No wonder all of us had high expectations for this coming event and no wonder the first women to enter our ranks thought we were all a bunch of horntoads. From the December 1972/January 1973 issue of "Coastline" magazine published by the Seventh Coast Guard District bi-monthly for Coasties.