Margaret Ann Hamilton Tunner
US WWII Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) pilot
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Kirstie Ennis
Former US Marine, who is an amputee, snowboarder, mountaineer and activist
Regine Tugade-Watson
Regine Tugade-Watson is a world champion in athletics and was one of was one of five Guamanian athletes who participated in the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Mikie Sherrill
US Representative from New Jersey and former naval helicopter pilot
Loretta Perfectus Walsh
Walsh became the US Naval Reserve’s first female enlistee as a Yeoman (F) on March 17, 1917.
Madeline Swegle
Madeline Swegle became the Navy’s first-known African-American woman to become a tactical air pilot when she earned her ‘wings of gold’ in 2020.
Josephine Tauoa
A native of Fagaitua, American Samoa, and a Master of Science in Management graduate from Excelsior College, Master Chief Josephine Tauoa enlisted in the U.S. Navy in July 1996 as a Machinist Mate.
Tchilalou Riggs
Riggs’s journey from her home in a small, West African nation on the Gulf of Guinea, to now leading Sailors at Commander, Navy Reserve Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia, is an example of hard work, perseverance and making the most of every opportunity.
Rear Admiral Alene Bertha Duerk
Rear Adm. Alene Bertha Duerk was the first woman promoted to admiral in the U.S. Navy in 1972.
Angela Katson
US Navy officer and ultra-marathon runner