MAJ Katherine Mary Doody

Mar 18, 2018 | Army, Navy

Katherine was raised on a rural Maryland farm, went to nursing school and landed a job at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. She had hopes of joining the Army to see the world, but was one inch too short for Army standards, so she joined the Navy. Soon...

Betty Jobes Somppi

Mar 14, 2018 | Army

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941, as men throughout the country signed up to be shipped out to Europe and the Pacific, 26-year-old Betty Somppi, of Erie, Pennsylvania, would do the same. She became one of the first women to be a part of the Women...

LTC Rutherford “Jack” Brice, II

Mar 13, 2018 | Army

Brice went to Korea as a commissioned officer after serving as an aviation machinist in World War II. Brice saw action in three of the bloodiest battles of the Korean War as a company commander and platoon leader. One of his starkest moments came during the Battle of...

SGT Ashly Lynn Moyer

Mar 12, 2018 | Army

Moyer was killed when an explosion detonated the fuel tank on her vehicle, creating a fireball. Among the soldiers who responded to the bombing was Moyer’s boyfriend, Jake Wells, a member of her unit who tried to rescue her but was turned back by the flames and rounds...

CW4 John William Engeman

Mar 9, 2018 | Army

In August of 1978 John entered the U.S. Army as an enlisted mechanic. He was selected as a warrant officer (ordinance/maintenance) in 1988. He was promoted to chief warrant officer four on March 1, 2002. John met and married his wife, Donna, while the two were...

LTC Lambros D. Callimahos

Mar 6, 2018 | Army

Born to Greek parents in Cairo, Egypt, he came to this country at the age of 4. He was a renowned concert flutist who became a cryptologist for the National Security Agency. After studying the flute at the Julliard School of Music in New York City and further study in...