Articles tagged with: u.s. department of veterans affairs
Women Veterans’ Stories of Service: Peggy Mikelonis Peggy Mikelonis, U.S. Army Nurse Corps “Probably one of the greatest things I learned from my time in the service is collegiality … you hear of how people who served in the military come away with an entirely different sense of family.”
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Women Veterans’ Stories of Service: Vivian Greeno Vivian Greeno, U.S. Navy “My biggest accomplishment didn’t occur until after I left, but I lobbied for women to be on board submarines and now they can go on board submarines.”
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Women Veterans’ Stories of Service: Katrina Goldby Katrina Goldby, U.S. Army Reserve “I joined in 1991 during Desert Storm; served in a medical unit, reserve unit, for the first nine years and pretty much the only place that I went was San Antonio…and then in 2001, of course, 9/11 occurred. After that happened we started […]
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Women Veterans’ Stories of Service: Brigadier General Wilma Vaught Brigadier General Wilma Vaught, U.S. Air Force “I was the first woman ever to deploy on a Strategic Air Command deployment so there were three thousand and some men in the unit and me. I thought that was about the right mix.”
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