Veteran

A Salute to Women in Uniform

My sisters-in-arms became my friends, and my heroes, for life.

Female US Navy Sailors. Media provided by Department of the US Navy. Copyright: Public Domain

The sky was still dark and the air biting cold as our bus pulled up to Great Lakes Recruit Training Command. Men and women in sharply creased uniforms appeared as if from nowhere, barking orders for us to disembark and form into two lines: men to the right, women to the…