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Category: Role Models
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Honored Role Series (Part 8): Col. Terry Walters, MD – Navigating Uncharted Waters
This is the eight installment in the weekly Honored Role Series. Before turning 10, Terry Tepper took the helm of the family’s 40-foot wooden yacht and steered into Barbados harbor, “My father…
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Honored Role Series (Part 7): 1st. Lt. Aubrey McCary – Shades of Gray
This is the seventh installment in the weekly Honored Role Series. Her packing list includes body armor, a Kevlar helmet, a M-16 rifle, 3 pairs of desert tan boots, and 4 sets…
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Honored Role Series (Part 6): Maj. Mindy Kimball – Shooting for Stars
This is the sixth installment in the weekly Honored Role Series. Pondering science, space, and astronomy inspires US Army Major Mindy Kimball, because she has long dreamed of becoming an astronaut. Many…
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Honored Role Series (Part 5): Hae-Sue Park – Getting Out of the Comfort Zone
This is the fifth installment in the weekly Honored Role Series. When Liet. Col. Hae-Sue Park retired from the Army two years ago, the most common questions she received from friends, “I…
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Honored Role Series (Part 4): Jen Boggs – US Soldier turned UN Peacekeeper
This is the fourth installment in the weekly Honored Role Series. “It is amazing how more alike we are than we are different,” said Jen Boggs, Coordination Officer in the Office of…
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Honored Role Series (Part 3): Maj. Stephanie Ahern – Soldier, Scholar, and Mother
This is the third installment in the weekly Honored Role Series. Before kindergarten Stephanie Ahern drafted her life plan; graduate high school, attend a good college, earn a masters degree and then…
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Honored Role Series (Part 2): Becky Kanis – Armed Service and Social Service
This is the second installment in the weekly Honored Role Series. As a junior high student in Franklin, Tennessee, Becky Kanis remembers the excitement and awe of fellow parishioners when they learned…
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Honored Role: A weekly series about role models
Between 1980 and 2008, 3,245 women graduated from West Point and have served selflessly in the Nation’s armed forces. Most of them, whether or not they still wear the uniform, are ordinary…