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Sgt Martha Bigbie

At nineteen Martha left Aberdeen, South Dakota on August 4, 1967 for Basic Training in Lackland, Texas. Part of the 2nd flight of women to join the Air Force who need not be in the Medical Field.  Attended Personnel School in Amarillo, Texas to train as a Personnel...

Leilani (Jan) Miller

Leilani J Miller joined the U.S. Army April 10, 1970. She graduated Woman’s Army Corps basic training at Ft McClellan, Alabama. General Elizabeth P. Hoisington was the keynote speaker. At Ft. Sam Houston, Texas graduated from 91A School, the keynote speaker was...

Laurie Anne Brechtel Smith

Shortly after graduating from high school in 1974, Laurie Anne Brechtel Smith left home in Redmond Washington. She followed in the footsteps of her father, Alvin E. Brechtel, who served in the Army Air Corp during World War II, by joining the United States Army...

Janet Elaine Warner

In 1970 I had graduated from the Brigham Young University Nursing Program & was working in the Salt Lake City/County Health Department as a Public Health Nurse. My 2 uncles who had served in WWII as pilots in the Air Force talked me into joining the reserve unit...

PVT Wayne Dalton

Healing Through Arts – Profile Wayne Dalton Private, USMC 1967-1969 – Vietnam I sat for 6 hours getting to know this United States Marine, Wayne Dalton, and it wasn’t long enough. We laughed, we shed tears, and I fully felt the struggles that he has endured. The...