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Aida Nancy Sanchez
(Physical Therapist), 1952-1976, Vietnam
U.S. Army Medical Specialist Corps
Army physical therapist Aida Nancy Sanchez, originally from Santurce, Puerto Rico, served at the 95th Evacuation Hospital near Da Nang, Vietnam, from December 1970 to December 1971. As the first physical therapist assigned to the hospital, she set up…
Gianna Fimbres
U.S. Air Force, 1978-1983
Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm
U.S. Army, 1987-1992
After serving in the U.S. Air Force from 1978 to 1983, Gianna Fimbres, of Tucson, Arizona, enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1987. Trained as a petroleum specialist, Fimbres deployed to Kuwait and Iraq during Operation Desert Storm (1990-1991).…
Front page of The Carrier, Naval Air Station Alameda, California, August 14, 1992, Vol. No. 33, NAS Avionics Worker Recalls Desert Storm Duties, featuring Army Reservist First Sergeant Delphine Metcalf
First Sergeant, United States Army Reserve, Delphine Metcalf gives an account the work done by her 30 soldier 689th Graves Registration Company, processing 177 casualties for shipment home during Operation Desert Storm.
2LT Estella Blas Aguon, Guam National Guard
2LT Estella Blas Aguon became the first woman from the Guam National Guard to complete the Ranger Training Assessment Course at Fort Benning, GA.
2LT Marcella A. Hayes, US Army
Photo of Marcella Hayes, originally printed in Ebony Magazine in 1980.