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Denice Williams,

Lt Col, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.)

Virginia State Commander – Disabled American Veterans

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Williams’ 30 years of duty includes tours at Marine Corps headquarters in Quantico, VA, and the U.S. Naval Academy.

When C&P Telephone opened lineman positions to women in the early 1970s, Portsmouth native Denice Williams was one of the first to strap on a tool belt and join the men. “I was going to college full time and working full time as a telephone operator and this was more money – it was a no brainer,” says Williams.

Her favorite uncle had been a Marine, but that wasn’t the career the young pre-med student had set her sights on. “It never dawned on me that women could do that,” says Williams. A local Marine recruiter begged to differ.

“As a matter of fact, my recruiter still lives in Virginia Beach,” says Williams. “When I see him, I tell him this is all your fault and he just smiles.”

Williams finished college, then completed Officer Candidates School at Marine headquarters in Quantico, Virginia. “Back then C&P telephone would give the military time off, so I thought I’d serve for three or four years and still have a job when I came back,” she says. That threeyear hitch stretched into 30, and along the way Williams mentored, encouraged, pushed, pulled, boosted, shaped and celebrated the progress of countless young Marines under her command.

“Everybody’s not cut out to do 20 or 30 years, I got that, but everybody is cut out to be the best that they can possibly be,” says Williams. “Don’t fight your own potential. And never underestimate the value of what your life can mean to others. I get emails, I get phone calls, I get Mother’s Day cards, they find me on Facebook, I’ve been to so many weddings.” All fellow Marines wanting her to know the impact she had on their lives.

“And I’ve seen the evolution of what women are doing now,” Williams notes. “When I was a young officer, you had to wear white gloves, they’d actually check to see if you had a girdle on, you had to place your purse a certain way on your arm, and there were etiquette classes.

I think I was a company commander when women were first allowed to be familiarized and trained with weapons. And now, if women have the ability, there is so much more opportunity.

“The other thing I’ve seen change is that there used to be an established battle line. Today nobody knows where anything is going to strike, you have to be vigilant, you have to be prepared.”

She was stationed at Quantico on 9/11. As a member of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services, she had accompanied a Marine general to a meeting at the Pentagon on September 10th. “We were supposed to go back on the 11th, but the general had an

early meeting that morning and sent word we’d be going over later,” says Williams. “When the Pentagon was hit that day, that’s just where we would have been.”

It was a sobering moment in an eventful career. Williams has trained young recruits at Paris Island, taught midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy, worked on research and development of weapon systems at Marine headquarters, made media appearances on behalf of the Marine Corps, given motivational speeches during recruitment drives and worked on equal opportunity initiatives. At one point she was profiled in Ebony magazine. And throughout her career, Williams has served as an exemplary role model.

“I was at Camp Lejeune, this was 1977, and when I looked around, I was the only female black officer on the base,” recalls Williams. “When you’re searching for somebody to pattern yourself after, you look to see if there’s anybody who looks like you. It’s not that you have to follow that person, but it lets you know that if they can do it, so can you.”

Williams retired in 2005 and began volunteering with Disabled American Veterans (www.dav.org), a non-profit that connects veterans with services and benefits, such as providing rides to medical appointments or helping vets file claims. “A lot of veterans don’t know all the benefits they’ve earned or how to access them,” says Williams, who is now Virginia State Commander for the organization. “Or the veteran may pass away, but the spouse doesn’t know what she is entitled to or her children. So we help them through that process.”

If a veteran can’t come to her, Williams goes to them.

“I’ve been adopted by several of them,” she laughs. “You have to give back. I couldn’t see myself doing otherwise.”

She stays involved with civic groups, travels with her husband and does a bit of catering with her sister. “I learned a little Japanese, did professional modelling, and my sister and I put a roof on a house,” adds Williams. “I don’t know how to play a musical instrument, but that’s on my list.”

There’s a local chapter of the Montford Point Marine Association, an organization that honors the legacy of the first African Americans to serve in the Marine Corps, and Williams is a member. “I think I was the first female to join,” she says. The group originally suggested she sign on as an auxiliary member, the traditional slot for women.

“I said I’m not an auxiliary, I’m not doing that. I’m a Marine.” Oh yes. Yes she is.

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Tanya Canty, YNC, U.S. Navy (Ret.)

Senior Director, Mission United Hampton Roads The call came in late one Friday evening as Tanya Canty, director of the United Way’s Mission United Hampton Roads, was closing up her office. “I almost didn’t pick up the phone,” says Canty, “but everything within me said answer this.”

It was a homeless coordinator with the Hampton VA Medical Center. She had a Marine Corps veteran who was living in his car with his wife and three children. “This is a Marine who served eight years and is 50% service-connected for PTSD,” says Canty. “He was working at the shipyard but had a lung condition so they let him go. When I called him, he started to cry. He said, ‘Ms. Canty, you have no idea how people treat the homeless.’ To hear a Marine cry, it tore me up.”

Canty secured funds for lodging and alerted InTown Suites in Hampton that they had a Marine and his family coming in. “I gave them a brief of what was going on and they laid out snacks, bottled water and extra bedding.”

When the family entered the room, they called Canty back. “They were crying, I was crying, we were all crying,” she says.

Canty arranged with partner organizations to share the tab for the family’s hotel stay until housing could be secured, then stepped in once again to help with a car repair bill. Now, one year later, this family of five is thriving.

“They have housing, he has a job as a forklift operator and the children are all doing well in school,” she reports. “I love this work, I absolutely love it. It’s a wonderful feeling when you know you’ve made a difference.”

Canty’s can-do spirit is partly inherent and partly forged by her 21 years in the Navy. It was her brother-in-law’s stories of shipboard camaraderie and exotic locales that prompted the 19-year-old country girl from Missouri to sign on in 1984.

“Women had begun to serve aboard ships by then and my first tour was on a destroyer tender, the USS Cape Cod. Of a crew of 1200, about 250 were female. Luckily for me, the women around me had served for a number of years and they set the bar – for military bearing, discipline, respect, it shows others who you are even when you are out in the community.

“There were still people at that time who were saying women shouldn’t be on ships, they shouldn’t do this, they’re not supposed to do that. But I had a group of women who said not only do we belong, but we are going to show you that we do. Oh, it was powerful. These women were serious and they made such an impression on me that I still conduct myself that way today.”

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After touring Southeast Asia as a yeoman, Canty was assigned to Assault Craft Unit Two at Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek. “There were five other women at this command and I was able to pass on what I had learned,” she says. “This is how we conduct ourselves, this is how we set the tone. It was wonderful duty.”

One of her favorite assignments was working with reservist Seabees, a group whose work ethic modeled her own. Their motto? “‘The difficult we do now, the impossible takes a little longer.”

Canty, with her team of two case workers, specializes in regularly producing the impossible for Mission United Hampton Roads’ client base of active duty military members, veterans and their families (missionunited-hr.org). Education and training?

Check. Financial and housing assistance? Absolutely. Food, healthcare, employment and legal help? Oh, yes.

“Mission United is such a critical program that connects our active duty men and women, our guards, our reserves, our veterans, and their families with so many services, even when there are no dollars to do the work,” Canty says. “It’s just a dedication and determination to deal with adverse issues and it’s woven into the respect we have for our military-connected population.”

The program was started by a retired JAG officer in Broward County, Florida, who volunteered at his local United Way. “When we got wind of it, my CEO, COO and I took a trip to see how it worked,” says Canty, “and they opened their doors and showed us everything.”

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Mission United Hampton Roads debuted on Veterans Day a year ago and to date the organization has served over 1500 military-connected families, partnering with 114 other service providers and more than 200 supporting companies. Now Canty’s helping United Way locations that serve the military in other parts of the country. “In fact I was just on a call with Columbus, Georgia,” says Canty. “They have a big Army base there, Ft. Benning, and we want to open our doors to them the way Broward County did for us.

“It’s amazing work; I get to see the community connect. And when I think back on going into the military at 19, just young and impressionable, I gained leadership skills I could not have picked up at any university.”

The camaraderie and exotic locales Canty was promised by her brother-in-law? “I lived it, I absolutely lived it,” she says. “But I think the work I’m doing now is even more rewarding.” Not so exotic perhaps, but still filled with camaraderie, purpose, and regular delivery of the impossible.

Tanya Canty, after serving 21 years and perfecting the art of the impossible, retires from the Navy.

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Kathy Nelson,

Captain, U.S. Navy (Ret.) Director, Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society - Norfolk

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In 1980, armed with a degree in Spanish and a penchant for travel, Kathy Nelson packed up her yellow Ford Pinto and headed for the Navy’s Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island. “I was working at the time for a construction company, very much a male-dominated business,” says Nelson, “and in the Navy, the pay and benefits were the same, regardless of gender. It was just intriguing, a new opportunity at the time, something that I thought would be a good match for me.”

It was a very good match indeed. In her 27-year career, Nelson would serve as a Cryptologic/Information Warfare Officer, command Naval Security Groups Augsburg and Bad Aibling in Germany and Ft. Meade, Maryland, and direct Global Operations, Naval Network Warfare Command in Norfolk.

Nelson was fascinated with her new career from the very beginning. “I came in as they were building up for the 600 ship Navy and we had a very big class, very interesting, very diverse,” she recalls. “We came from different perspectives, and different things had brought us there, yet we definitely clicked in the midst of that.”

Her first duty station was Japan, followed by orders to the Pentagon. “There were very few women at sea at that point, the only billets were on submarine tenders, no combat and command,” Nelson says. “I was more interested in intelligence.”

She got her opportunity during a stint at the National Security Agency. “While I was there I did a lateral transfer into the cryptologic field and that was where I spent the rest of my career,” she says. “I was able to work with phenomenal people who gave me the space to do my job and empowered me. There was never a dull moment.”

One of Nelson’s favorite assignments was interacting with her German counterparts while she was stationed in that country. “It was interesting to see how similar our services are, though with some cultural differences obviously. At the time, there were many more opportunities for women in the U.S. Navy than in Germany’s. But we shared a wonderful fellowship of sailors.”

Her two sons played soccer matches in the Czech Republic and Poland, and learned to ski at a resort in Bavaria.

“But they also had to change schools frequently,” says Nelson. “And they also learned to have an appreciation for service and that means you sometimes don’t get to do exactly what you’d like.” For example: “On Christmas Eve, it’s not just about you, but there are people on watch, so you go in and take things to them. But I’d like to think that’s a positive, not a sacrifice.”

Nelson witnessed an influx of women enter the Navy and go on to pilot planes and command ships. “It’s a validation of the fact that there are many people from all places, backgrounds and viewpoints who are able to set that aside and work toward a common goal for the greater good of defending our nation and the things we hold dear. There is so much more we agree on than we disagree on.

“I was fortunate that my work was valued and effort rewarded. My time in the service was a remarkable personal and professional adventure. More than anything it gave me the opportunity to lead a life far beyond what I could have imagined.”

When she retired, Nelson picked up a new mantle of service as the director of the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society in Norfolk (www.nmcrs.org). “Marines and sailors do fall into difficult circumstances, so we’re here to help identify financial solutions,” she says. “You sit down with a young sailor who set up his federal withholding at boot camp, now he’s married and has two kids and didn’t realize it is as easy as going on the computer to change the federal withholding and have an immediate impact on the amount of money he takes home every paycheck.”

Then there was the recently married sailor who didn’t realize his unpaid tolls were piling up and that his insurance wasn’t up to date. “He was also short on a car payment, so we were able to take care of the tolls, get his insurance caught up and resolve the car payment,” Nelson says. “Sometimes it’s just as simple as I’ve got to get my car fixed and I don’t have enough money, or sometimes it’s something more tragic like the loss of a parent, so getting them on a flight home to the funeral.”

Last year, the four Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society offices in Hampton Roads provided $8.8 million in interestfree loans and grants and this year she expects that number to be higher. “It’s the everyday situations to the very unexpected, and our assistance is there for every paygrade and experience. We also help retirees as well. Sometimes financial burdens can be overwhelming until you get the chance to look at them and see there’s a way out.”

For someone who’s an expert at picking apart cryptologic puzzles, untangling a pile of bills may seem like tame sport. “But I love what I’m doing,” says Nelson. “In the Navy, it was the lure of being part of something bigger than yourself, of serving in new and exciting ways.” Her current work? Just an exciting new way to serve.

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Michelle Story,

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Michelle Story, fresh out of Navy boot camp, looked at her first set of orders – Okinawa. “I was such a small town girl that I asked with all my 18-year-old wisdom, is that in Wisconsin? They just looked at me and said no, it isn’t,” she laughs.

Story, who grew up in a small coastal village in Massachusetts, joined the Navy straight out of high school in 1985. “I just thought it would be a cool opportunity,” she says. “And it was.”

With a decided enthusiasm for all things new, Story set about mastering the job assigned to her: military police officer. “I was a teenager far from home and there were times as a female when it was isolating; it took some time to establish boundaries and teach people to respect those boundaries,” she says. “But there were also times when being a woman was a positive. My voice would tend to deescalate situations that were chaotic and bring an air of calm if things got explosive. And during domestic situations on base, it’s always nice to have a female officer.”

Military police work can get a little messy, she says. “But you show up with a female face, and it’s,

‘You look like my sister.’ Oh good, well let’s head back to the ship. And in an argument, a female’s voice can break through when a man’s will not. ‘Is that my wife/girlfriend/mother?’ So I was considered an asset.”

Story loved Okinawa but Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in Puerto Rico remains her all-time favorite duty station. “That was a magical place for me and my daughter, drinking coconut juice, swimming in the backyard pool. We lived in town and had Puerto Rican neighbors who embraced us; they would cook for me when I got home.”

By then, her confidence had grown. “I was more secure in my ability to command a scene using my voice, my techniques and my training,” Story says.

But after a final tour in Jacksonville, Florida, she was ready to leave the Navy after 15 years of service.

She and her daughter settled in Virginia Beach – “I didn’t want to go back to Massachusetts, too cold, and any further south is too far,” explains Story.

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Well, I didn’t know that wasn’t the case in the civilian world, so I would go around to everyone’s desk and ask if they needed help. I would just walk up to anyone, accountants, advertising reps, people I couldn’t possibly help. I had no idea.”

Though happy with her job, a childhood longing began to nag at Story.

“I had wanted to be a social worker when I was growing up,” she says.

So with characteristic enthusiasm, she dove into school. One bachelor’s and one master’s degree later, she accepted a job as a lead case manager at United Way’s Mission United Hampton Roads (missionunited-hr.org).

Mission United serves active duty military, veterans, and family members, offering a wide array of financial, employment, training, healthcare, housing and other forms of assistance.

“Working with veterans is my calling,” says Story. “I had one this week, a recently housed elderly veteran, formerly homeless, and all he wanted was a bed. It doesn’t seem like that would be a hard ask, but it’s not as easy to get a mattress as you might think. Couches, tables, chairs, yes, but not a mattress.

“Well, we have community partners and I am shameless when it comes to helping my clients. I was able to get him a queen-sized bed and fresh sheets and pillows. And I got into my own bed that night with my own sheets and pillows and I thought, yes! This man is going to

sleep in a bed with dignity. He fought for his country, he deserves to sleep in a bed. It’s a simple bed, not a big deal, right? But it is a big deal and it made me feel really good.”

Story is both a fierce advocate for her veterans and a skilled wrangler of assorted goods and services on their behalf. And even in the most stressful situations, she remains unflappable and on point, skills she picked up in the Navy.

“I think I’m a broader thinker than I would have been if I hadn’t joined the Navy, I think more globally and I’m more accepting of differences,” she says. “All those people I never would have run across, hearing their stories, talking about their cultures, farm people, people from inner cities, foster kids, it ran the gamut. And now in my current job, it helps me establish a rapport with my clients.

“Maybe they don’t realize I’m a veteran when they first see me, I’m not wearing a uniform, but as soon as I start talking the talk, you can see their shoulders relax.”

And whether it’s housing they need or a job or merely a bed, Story is going to find a way to provide it. “I like bringing order to chaos, helping people find peace and interacting with the community,” she says. “It makes me feel like I’ve done a good day’s work. I’m actually at this stage in my life where I’m doing what I always wanted to do.”

“Maybe they don’t realize I’m a veteran when they first see me, I’m not wearing a uniform, but as soon as I start talking the talk, you can see their shoulders relax.”

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“It was the first time I heard the word belligerent,” she says. “That was directed at me because I said why are you all yelling, it’s too early. That was corrected real quick.”

A few months earlier, Vargas, halfway through a bachelor’s degree in education, had volunteered to intern in a kindergarten class. There, standing among a handful of pint-sized masters of chaos and disruption, she realized teaching wasn’t for her.

“My parents gave me an ultimatum: finish school or go into the military,” Vargas says. So she traded a class of energetic, 5-year-old taskmasters for a contingent of demanding drill instructors. “And I knew this was for me,” she says.

“This was in 1985 and I think it was one female to every 25 males; that really encouraged me to hold my own,” Vargas says. “It wasn’t so much I’m here to prove this to you, it was more, hey, I’m qualified to be part of this.

“And I think that females bring another perspective. You tell a male what to do, and they’re going to do it, if it’s a brick wall, bam, they’re going to go right through it. Women say, you know what, let’s go over

it or around it. We think out of the box.

“I can say the units I went to were very helpful in making sure we were a team, whether male and female,” Vargas says. “One of the most important things I was taught was that team does not have an ‘I’ and we’re all in this together.”

Vargas first trained as a field radio operator. “Even though I knew I was never going to be in that war zone, I was right out there training with them and I’d set up field communications,” she says. “They were open-minded and they were willing to teach me because I was considered one of them.”

She may not have used her knowledge on a battlefield, but Vargas says the information wasn’t wasted.

“I know how to wire my house, I know how to put up a ceiling fan, and I just rewired my mother’s house for her phone. That training just comes back to you,” she says.

Her next assignment took her to Okinawa as a security clerk to a general. “I had to get a security clearance,” says Vargas, “and my mother said look, there are people coming around asking questions about you – what have you done?

“But it was good to know I was making a contribution, that I was trusted with top secret information. To this day, only a few people know what was said, and it’s something I’ll take to my grave.”

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Vargas spent six years in the Corps, but decided to leave the s service when she had children, eventually taking a position as a probation officer in Portsmouth.

“They trained me to be an offender employment specialist ffor people who were reentering society, and I could identify a llot of things that were needed, things that I couldn’t address,” ssays Vargas. “It became a ddriving passion. I wanted a pposition where I could work ffull time helping people bellieve that someone cared aabout them, with resources tto help put them back on the rroad to live a successful life.”

When Vargas was offered a job providing those types oof services at Suffolk’s Workforce Development Center (www. ssuffolkva.us/540/Workforce-Development-Center), she took it.

“I think the most gratification I see is when someone comes iin, they need a resume, they have no clue how to operate a

computer and they don’t know how to take their experiences and put them on paper. So many are ready to quit on themselves or are embarrassed to ask for help. So I sit down with them for an hour or two, and when they get up they have a resume. We’re able to help them apply for work and they’ll come back and say, ‘I got that job!’

She’s currently working on starting a non-profit that will deliver additional services. “My dream is to have something like a mobile home where people can come in, take a shower, get a meal and wash their clothes,” says Vargas.

See a need, meet it – it’s the Marine Corps way.

“It’s just what was instilled in us,” Vargas says. “The integrity, the team player skills, the willingness to get out there – we are the few, the proud, the Marines.”

“It wasn’t so much I’m here to prove this to you, it was more, hey, I’m qualified to be part of this.”

Gloria Vargas graduates from boot camp in 1985.

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Women fly combat missions, command ships, answer to geneeral and admiral, set military policy and serve in every capacity tthey qualify for – even the Marine Corps allows women to test ttheir mettle in the grueling Officer Infantry Course.

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Women supplied much-needed support services during the Revolutionary War, including nursing, cooking, washing clothes, carrying water, even spying. The indomitable Deborah Sampson disguised herself as a man and fought alongside her fellow revolutionaries; her subterfuge was only discovered when she was wounded in battle.

1861-1865

Women returned to the battlefield during the Civil War in support roles. One of their most crucial duties was the life-or-death nursing care they provided. Mary Edwards Walker, a Union surgeon, was awarded the Medal of Honor.

1898

Over 1500 civilian nurses are assigned to Army hospitals during the Spanish-American War to help care for soldiers stricken by typhoid, malaria and yellow fever. Their efforts were so effective that the Army requested legislation creating a permanent corps of nurses.

1917-1918

More than 30,000 women enlisted in the military during WWI, as nurses and clerks; over 400 died from war-related disease and injuries.

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Women served both at home and abroad during WWII, filling just about every non-combat position. In 1948, Congress acknowledged their valuable role by opening the ranks to women during peacetime, creating a permanent place for them in the military.

1950-1953

Over 120,000 women served during the Korean War years, including nurses assigned to combat zones.

1965-1975

The Vietnam War years saw an influx of women volunteering for active duty – over a quarter of a million – and 10,000 women served in Vietnam.

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