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.