Today's #VeteranOfTheDay is Air Force Veteran Mary Lee Burdell Chalifour, who served as a nurse in the United States, Japan, and Germany from 1958-1978. Mary Lee Burdell Chalifour was born in 1935 in Charlotte, North Carolina. [From VAntage Point]

We honor your service, Mary!

https://www.blogs.va.gov/VAntage/68785/

I tend to forget, maybe you didn’t, just how many women served, not because they had to, but because they could meet the mental and physical requirements for enough years to retire at 20 years of service and maybe that was enough.  Some go on for 30.  She’s from that generation before mine that I disliked so much for their rigid adherence to rules, but I’m sure that came in handy as a nurse.  She married an enlisted man....so much for the UCMJ’s fraternization prohibition, so I guess she wasn’t all that rigid.  Enlisted usually are better than Officer ranks as human beings.

I feel humbled by her service....well, I feel that way in general about women who choose a medical career.