Magdelyn Applewhite – An FA-18 Welcome and Farewell
Magdelyn Applewhite joined the Navy with a high school friend, and they were the first women to integrate VFA-136, the Knighthawks, at NAS Oceana in Virginia. She describes her responsibilities as an 18-year-old and being capped for her hard work. She enjoyed mentoring others and ended her career where she began, at NAS Oceana.
Sarah Merwin McLevy – Holidays, Loss, and Yellow Ribbons
Sarah Merwin McLevy is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who served as a support operations officer with the 927th battalion in Iraq. She describes the importance of the holidays for the deployed service members and tells about how one guard member used civilian acquired skills to upgrade a maintenance facility. She also tells the […]
Robert Wallace – Plotting a Path to the Future
Retired Army Colonel Robert Wallace enlisted in 1948 and was sent to work at General MacArthur’s headquarters in Occupied Japan, where he personally printed the plans for the Invasion of Inchon. He later learned about computers at DODCI, worked at the Pentagon, and became the director of the Combat Service Support System in Fort Hood, […]