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“I was actually active duty for 6 years prior to switching over to the Reserves. I was communications back then. I had fun but I was ready to transition; go home, go to college. I actually reclassed to dental assisting because that’s what I used to do before I joined. And they told me there was a Reserve unit at Dover, Delaware. I said, ‘okay’ and I signed it. I showed up to my first drill and found out it was a mortuary affairs unit. I was like, ‘uh…no.’ So, I tried to transfer out of the unit to somewhere else but before that happened, I actually went to one of our annual trainings that happened at the port mortuary in Dover. And that’s where everything changed. Just seeing the work and the care and the respect and what they do to get the Soldiers home is just amazing. So, I decided to reclass.”
Sgt. Christina Cordova, mortuary affairs
“I’m going back to school. I want to become an audiologist and that’s a long process. Audiology, it’s like a doctor for ears, like hearing loss and communicative disorders kind of. It kind of ties in to speech pathology and language communicative disorders but it deals with your hearing, diseases of the ear, and things like that. My mom, she’s got partial hearing in one of her ears and she’s pretty much lost all hearing in her other ear because of a genetic mutation. Because my grandpa was in Vietnam and the Agent Orange that he was exposed to actually made him chronically ill and then she was also born with a birth defect from Agent Orange, which is her eardrums are deformed. If you shined a flashlight in her ear you can see her eardrum, that’s how deformed they are. That’s kind of why I want to go into audiology because she’s had a lot of bad experiences with audiologists that don’t really understand the mutation and they misdiagnosed her and don’t know what to do for her. So that’s something I’d like to put research into.”
Spc. Lisa Johnson, mortuary affairs
| Date Taken: | 02.05.2020 |
| Date Posted: | 02.14.2020 09:52 |
| Photo ID: | 6098831 |
| VIRIN: | 200205-A-JD648-1021 |
| Resolution: | 6720x4480 |
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