It sure would be nice to hear from an old friend, wouldn’t it? Someone who served in the trenches with you, someone who knew you before you lost your baby fat, someone who saved your life as often as you saved his. Utilize one of these two paths – they are easy, legal, and safe.

Oveta Culp Hobby was a boost to the nation as the first Director of the Womens’ Army Corps and as the first woman to receive the US Army’s Distinguished Service Medal, and as the first Secretary of the Dept. of Health Education and Welfare.

It is very simple to get a copy of a veteran’s military record. You fill out a “Request Pertaining to Military Records SF 180”, print it, sign it, and mail it in. It does sound simple, doesn’t it? But there are some things you should consider first.

Like the cotton fibers which filled her childhood, Irene Trowell-Harris, RN, Ed D. USAF Major General Retired twined her dreams into a filament of education and that filament into a cord of nursing skills and that cord into a banner of distinguished military service.

As a military brat, your child probably only cleaned his room right before you were about to be stationed somewhere else and the moving van was on the way. Written for your child, here is an article to help him see the adventure in obtaining a clean room.

The American Legion Auxiliary supports the American Legion and its programs for veterans and their families. It also sponsors students with scholarships and educates people in the responsibilities and concepts of being an active citizen in our Democracy.

The story of Molly Pitcher took on the quality of folklore, embellishing deeds here, slipping away from the facts there. But Molly Pitcher epitomized the bravery of women who fought for their country’s freedom.

Are you or a woman veteran you know and love at risk for hypertension? Do what it takes to live a long and healthy life. Help knock hypertension out of the top three diagnosed problems for women vets.

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Six years from Women's Army Auxilliary Corps to the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act, and a short thirty years until a gender-unified military: a phenomenally brief time in the span of human history.