Woman earns honorable discharge 60 years after Air Force kicked her out for being gay

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9. You're welcome - but I took the uniform off years ago and these things seem like yesterday. I was

appointed to conduct two Summary Courts, both overseas. One was investigating the accidental death of a Chief Warrant Officer. It included a Line of Duty investigating and communicating with his family (in the States) on disposition of his property. The other was punitive where you end up as judge, trial counsel and defense attorney all in one. Add in a half dozen admin things like reports of survey or 15-6 investigations, and I suppose it makes sense I ended up as an IG for several years.

For the last 20+ years I've been in the civil service but am privileged to work alongside military personnel in a Joint Environment. The young Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and occasional Marines with which I work impress me every day. We are 7/24 ops Emergency Essential so holidays are just work days when our team is on. Our day shops brought in so much food we were pretty much force-fed. On Christmas & New Year's long weekends, two of the Brig Generals (1 Army & 1 Marine who are not 24-hr Ops) were in - not just to show the flag, but to participate substantively in mission ops.

I'm watching netflix all night to finish changing my sleep cycle - we start mids tomorrow night.