At eighteen and half years old, Maureen Hughes left her home in Orange, California to begin boot camp for the U.S Navy. After graduation for boot camp she was selected to attend an “A” school in Disbursing. In January of 1974, Maureen was assigned with the...
Michele graduated from St Luke’s School of Nursing in MA in 1969, received her RN license and went to TX for basic training. Ft. Polk, LA was her first assignment. After 3 months she volunteered to go to Vietnam and was there from 1970 – 1971. She was assigned to the...
I spent my early days on a cotton farm in West Texas and my teen years in El Paso. After graduating from college and being miserable as a teacher, I applied for and received a direct commission in 1973 into the Women’s Army Corps. After basic training, I was assigned...
In October 1969, Mary enlisted in the Army as a WAC (Women’s Army Corps). At enlistment, Mary was already a mother of two children, but ready to serve her country. She promptly was deployed to Fort McClellan, Alabama where she completed her basic training and remained...
It was the GI Bill that sold her parents on joining the Army because she was not yet 21 years old and still needed her parents’ signatures for her to enlist. Her military career started September 1971, Fort McClellan, Alabama. Paula graduated from basic training a...
