No. 792 Elizabeth Mathias, 2014

File — Box: 74, Folder: 9

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Elizabeth Mathias talks about her first experiences with the military and her family’s history of military involvement. When she was a junior in high school she went to a summer camp at the Air Force Academy and decided to pursue a career in the Air Force. After her time at the Air Force Academy, she was assigned to earn her Master’s degree at Pennsylvania State University. Elizabeth talks about her experiences in the Air Force Academy and at Pennsylvania State University, particularly her experiences as a woman in the military. She explains her reaction to the events of 9/11. After earning her master’s she worked at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Elizabeth was also deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan from 2008 to 2009 where she worked in public affairs for the Air Force.
Project: Iraq and Afghanistan oral history project.
Interviewer: Matthew Basso

Dates

2014

Conditions Governing Access

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