G I V I N G A V O I C E TO
WOMEN
V E T E R A N S
THE EARLY YEARS
I knew as a child growing up that life held more for me than
accepted. I still wish to this day that I could thank him for seeing
something in me that I didn’t see in myself and encouraging
me to shoot for the stars. I left for an eighteen-month college
University of Idaho and started college in the fall of 1982.
computer science and received my commission as a Navy
instructor directed me to stand up and tell the
well. Although I went
through the same
NUGGET
radars and enemy missiles to train Navy ships and combat
aviators in electronic countermeasures. The squadron was one
of two Navy squadrons that provided this type of training. It
what I thought was a second-rate squadron. New aviators in a
Ensign Linda Maloney in Navy flight training with her class, circa July 1987
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