WEBVTT

00:00.009 --> 00:03.240
I enlisted in 1975 and one of the first

00:03.240 --> 00:06.650
Cold War vets basically . I when I went

00:06.650 --> 00:08.817
into the AP station , they were like ,

00:08.817 --> 00:10.872
Well , do you know what these scores

00:10.872 --> 00:13.150
mean ? I have no idea . They said , Oh ,

00:13.150 --> 00:12.970
you can do anything you want to do .

00:12.989 --> 00:15.489
And I'm like , OK , then somebody will

00:15.489 --> 00:17.600
tell you what they mean . Nobody ever

00:17.600 --> 00:19.770
did , of course . And so then I , they

00:19.770 --> 00:21.937
said , Well , what do you wanna do ? I

00:21.937 --> 00:23.992
said , I want to be a pilot and they

00:23.992 --> 00:23.290
said , Nope , you wear glasses , you

00:23.290 --> 00:25.401
can't be a pilot . I said , OK , I'll

00:25.401 --> 00:27.568
jump out of the planes and they said ,

00:27.568 --> 00:27.530
nope , you can't do that . You're a

00:27.530 --> 00:29.474
woman . And they said , Well , you

00:29.474 --> 00:31.899
could be a nurse and I like . How about

00:31.899 --> 00:33.899
a clerk typist ? I said that's even

00:33.899 --> 00:36.066
worse than a nurse . And so I ended up

00:36.066 --> 00:38.288
being a radio teletype operator . I was

00:38.288 --> 00:40.510
the 3rd woman at my active duty unit at

00:40.510 --> 00:43.409
Fort Riley , and then I was the , uh ,

00:43.790 --> 00:45.790
and I , I don't know about this for

00:45.790 --> 00:47.790
sure because I was never officially

00:47.790 --> 00:49.734
awarded the MOS . I was either the

00:49.734 --> 00:52.090
first woman unit armored in the US Army ,

00:52.139 --> 00:54.361
but definitely at Fort Riley . Well , I

00:54.361 --> 00:57.049
had a cousin that was in the Civil War .

00:57.869 --> 01:00.419
My grandmother was a nurse in World War

01:00.419 --> 01:02.669
1 at front lines in France . Uh ,

01:04.349 --> 01:08.230
5 of my uncles served , uh , World War

01:08.230 --> 01:10.629
II through the Korean War . I lost 1 in .

01:14.959 --> 01:18.879
My younger brother served . 8 of

01:18.879 --> 01:21.101
us , there were 2 of us that served and

01:21.101 --> 01:23.101
niece who served and I had a cousin

01:23.101 --> 01:25.410
that served in . Well , it's just kind

01:25.410 --> 01:29.370
of fun to interact with them . you know ,

01:31.019 --> 01:33.186
recognizing them for what they've done

01:33.186 --> 01:33.819
in their service .