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Podcast: Women of the Military
Episode: Serving During Operation Desert Storm - Episode 57
Description: Angela joined the National Guard as a cook and then headed off to basic training the summer between her junior and senior year of high school. She realized after basic training that being a cook wasn’t what she wanted to do. She couldn’t get out of that career field because she had received a bonus on her enlistment. She looked into going active duty, joining the Marines, but nothing panned out. She did get to switch from being a cook to water purification.
The National Guard was in charge of primarily all the water purification for...