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Title	[Maria Felger Wayne receiving balloons for her Air Assault graduation, circa 1990]
Date	1990
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	Persian Gulf War, 1991 United States. Army--Women
Era	Gulf War (1990-2000)
Service branch	Army
Item description	This photograph of Maria Felger Wayne shows her receiving balloons, while others look on, for her Air Assault graduation. She wears BDUs (Battle Dress Uniform) with the 7th Infantry Division patch on her shoulder.
Veteran's name	Wayne, Maria Felger
Veteran's biography	Captain Maria Felger Wayne (b. 1964) served in the U.S. Army as a Transportation Officer from 1985-1993 . Maria Felger Wayne was born in Van Wert, Ohio in 1964. She grew up there as part of a large family, and matriculated at Ball State University with a scholarship for diving, intending to enter the military as an officer upon graduation . During her sophomore year of college, Wayne suffered an accident and left the diving team. She left school to enlist in the army and completed basic training and Advanced Individual Training (AIT) in transportation at Fort Eustis, Virginia. She then received notice from Ball State University’s Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) that she was eligible for an ROTC scholarship. Wayne re-enrolled and completed college as an ROTC cadet. During her senior year of college, Wayne also married and had her first child . Upon graduation, Wayne went to Officer Training School, again at Fort Eustis, and then to Fort Benning, Georgia, for Airborne School. Her first duty station was Fort Ord, California, and from there, she was deployed to Panama as a second lieutenant with her platoon for Operation Nimrod Dancer, which took place in 1989. Soon after, Wayne also went to Air Assault School at Fort Campbell, Kentucky . Wayne began having increasing health problems which were eventually diagnosed as lupus, which caused her to move from the army to reserve duty.
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0500 Maria Felger Wayne Oral History
Collection summary	October 2010 oral history interview.
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0500.6.002
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
OCLC number	900815688

[Maria Felger Wayne receiving balloons for her Air Assault graduation, circa 1990]

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