Veterans...Get the hell in here now!

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"Elinor Otto, widely known as the last Rosie the Riveter, joined the head of Air Mobility Command on a C-17 flight over California Monday to educate and inspire the next generation of airmen. Otto, 98, who has worked on every C-17 Globemaster ever built, had never actually flown on one. She finally got that opportunity when she spent more than three hours on a Globemaster III piloted by Gen. Carlton Everhart, the head of AMC, near March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County. With them were about 30 Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets who were given the opportunity to see some of the Air Force’s missions."

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2017/12/21/rosie-the-riveter-shares-experiences-on-c-17-flying-classroom/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EBB 12.22.17&utm_term=Editorial - Military - Early Bird Brief
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My Mom (rip) was a "Rosie the riveter" during WWII...
 
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In this April 1972 photo made available by NASA, John Young salutes the U.S. flag at the Descartes landing site on the moon during the first Apollo 16 extravehicular activity.

Legendary astronaut John Young, who walked on the moon and later commanded the first space shuttle flight, has died, NASA said Saturday. Young was 87

“Astronaut John Young’s storied career spanned three generations of spaceflight,” NASA administrator Robert Lightfoot said in an emailed statement. “John was one of that group of early space pioneers whose bravery and commitment sparked our nation’s first great achievements in space.”

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2018/01/06/astronaut-john-young-naval-aviator-has-died/
 
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On 11 June 1970, Colonel Anna Mae Hays was promoted to the grade of general and became the first woman in the United States Armed Forces to wear the insignia of a brigadier general. Army Chief of Staff General William C. Westmoreland and Secretary of the Army Stanley C. Resor officiated at the ceremony

Anna Mae Hays, nurse who became US military's first female general, dies at 97​

"Anna Mae Hays, an Army nurse who served in a mud-caked jungle hospital in World War II, guided the Army Nurse Corps through the bloodiest years of the Vietnam War and became the first female general in American military history, died Jan. 7 at a retirement home in Washington, D.C. She was 97."

https://www.stripes.com/anna-mae-hays-nurse-who-became-us-military-s-first-female-general-dies-at-97-1.505802?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Stars+and+Stripes+Emails&utm_campaign=Daily+Headlines

http://history.amedd.army.mil/HaysBio/HayesBio.html
 
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"Native American veterans will have a memorial at the National Mall, on the grounds of the National Museum of the American Indian. The memorial will acknowledge the military sacrifice of Native Americans, who served in the U.S. military at a higher per capita rate than any other ethnic group in the 20th century, the Washington Post reported."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/native-american-veterans-will-be-honored-with-memorial-on-national-mall/2018/01/14/06c19170-f7d7-11e7-a9e3-ab18ce41436a_story.html?utm_term=.ca9a3eb23aba
 
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