International Engagement Through Navy Foreign Area Officers

摘要

I joined the Navy to go to sea. I grew up on black and white, World War II movies. Nothing was morefascinating or inspiring to me than the Victory at Sea series. But I never really considered the Navy asa career. Women didn't join the Navy. Then one day in 1983 I walked through my high schoolcounselor's office and saw a poster for the U.S. Naval Academy-at the forefront of the poster was afemale midshipman. Six years later I graduated from Annapolis with orders to my first ship, USSNiagara Falls (AFS 3), homeported out of Agana, Guam. I found myself deploying to some of thesame waters I had followed in Victory at Sea.