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  • Linda Card

    Master Sergeant (Ret.) Linda Card is a public affairs officer, equestrian, medical technician and role model for women currently serving in the armed forces.  Card’s 24-year career began when she joined the Women in the Air Force in the early 1970s.  WAF was a program that served to bring women into

  • Eric W. Benken

    Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force (Ret.) Eric W. Benken had no intention of serving more than his first term of four years.  With his plane ticket and separation paperwork in hand, he was ready to go back to his hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio, until a chief master sergeant pulled him into his office

  • Dave Mercier

    Staff Sergeant (Sep.) Dave Mercier knew at a young age that he wanted to be in law enforcement. "My father served for four years in the Air Force and I was born while he was still on active duty," said Mercier. "He was extremely proud of his service and I always remembered seeing his retirement

  • Leo Makelky

    Staff Sergeant (Sep.) Leo Makelky was working for Douglas Aircraft in California when he heard about the attacks on Pearl Harbor and instantly knew what he had to do. With the hope it would finally be his chance to get up in an airplane, the World War II veteran enlisted in 1943, one of the most

  • Jeremy Lock

    Master Sergeant (Ret.) Jeremy Lock served as an Air Force photojournalist for more than 20 years, traveling to more than 50 countries on six continents and providing the Air Force with mission critical combat imagery. Lock started his career as a film processor. He attended the Department of Defense

  • Suzanne LaForest

    Major (Ret.) Suzanne LaForest was born March 18, 1949, in Manchester, New Hampshire, the second oldest of five siblings. After receiving a degree in nursing from the University of New Hampshire, she moved to Nashua to work as a critical care nurse at St. Joseph’s Hospital. The recruiter at Pease Air

  • Jay Karpin

    Lieutenant (Sep.) Jay Karpin is an Army Air Corps veteran who served between 1944 and 1945. Karpin is a distinguished bombardier who flew more than 35 bombing missions during World War II. He began his career in the B-24 Liberator. After flying 12 missions, he was reassigned by General Jimmy

  • Peter Karpawitz-Godt

    Senior Master Sergeant (Ret.) Peter Karpawitz-Godt was raised the son of a police officer in the midst of World War II in Germany. After WWII, Karpawitz-Godt moved to America so he could enroll in college. In March of 1956, at the age 27, he became an Airman in the U.S. Air Force. After training to

  • Earl Hendrix

    Chief Master Sergeant (Ret.) Earl Hendrix began his Air Force career on his 18th birthday in 1957. He served as a bomb loader on multiple aircraft. While serving in Vietnam, a rocket pummeled his bunker, killing him and 17 others. When he was transported, he was tossed onto a concrete slab and his

  • John Hayes

    Captain (Sep.) John Hayes embodies the sentiment of serving after a career of service. Hayes began his six years of active-duty service at Webb Air Force Base, Texas, after graduating in 1967 from Southern Methodist University as an Air Force ROTC cadet. Hayes’ next assignment took him to Charleston

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