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[Yardley "Nelson" Hunter at O'Farrell Junior High School in San Diego, California, for Academy Awareness Program, June 1977]
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Title
[Yardley
"
Nelson
"
Hunter
at
O'Farrell
Junior
High
School
in
San
Diego
,
California
, for
Academy
Awareness
Program
,
June
1977]
Date
1977-06
Subject headings
United States--History--1969-
United States--Armed Forces--African Americans
Era
Post-Vietnam, Panama, Grenada (1975-1989)
Service branch
Air Force--WAF
Air Force
Item description
Yardley
"
Nelson
"
Hunter
at
O'Farrell
Junior
High
School
in
San
Diego
,
California
for
Academy
Awareness
Program
in
June
,
1977
, at
age
24
,
attired
in
Air
Force
Dress
uniform
without
service
jacket.
"
Text
on
back
of
photograph
reads:"June
1977
24
years
old
O'Farrell
Jr
.
H.S
.
-
San
Diego
,
California
Academy
Awareness
Program
"
Veteran's name
Hunter, Yardley Nelson Marie
Veteran's biography
Dr
.
Yardley
Nelson
Hunter
(b
.
1953)
served
in the
U.S
.
Air
Force
from
1975-1997
. She was
one
of the
selected
group
of
officers
to
mentor
the
first
women's
class
of
Air
Force
Academy
graduates
.
Dr
.
Yardley
Nelson
Hunter
was
born
in
1953
in
Buffalo
,
New
York
. She
grew
up
in
Buffalo
,
graduating
from
high
school
in
1971
. She then
went
to
Bennett
College
in
Greensboro
on a
National
Endowment
for the
Humanities
scholarship
.
During
her
time
at
Bennett
,
Hunter
(then
,
Nelson)
entered
the
ROTC
program
at the
nearby
A&T
State
University
.
Upon
graduation
, she
entered
the
United
States
Air
Force
with a
commission
as a
second
lieutenant
in
August
of
1975
.
Hunter
attended
officer
basic
training
at
Maxwell
Air
Force
Base
in
Alabama
, as
well
as
sixteen
weeks
of
air
traffic
control
school
at
Keesler
Air
Force
Base
in
Mississippi
.
While
at
Keesler
, she
attended
an
informational
session
to
recruit
the
first
class
of
women
to
enter
the
Air
Force
Academy
,
applied
, and was
accepted
.
In
January
of
1976
,
Hunter
went
to the
Air
Force
Academy
with a
cadre
of
other
young
female
officers
,
where
they were
trained
and then
served
as
upperclassmen
to the
incoming
freshman
class
of
female
officers
. That
upper
class
cadre
was
referred
to as
Air
Training
Officers
, or
ATOs
.
Hunter
married
a
fellow
Air
Force
officer
in
1978
, and they were
both
assigned
to
Mountain
Home
Air
Force
Base
in
Idaho
.
While
stationed
there she
became
pregnant
and had a
child
(A
1976
law
allowed
pregnant
women
to
remain
in the
United
States
military.)
Her
next
assignment
was to
Edwards
Air
Force
Base
. She was a
captain
at the
time
, but
filled
a
position
intended
for a
major
.
Later
,
Hunter
and her
husband
were
assigned
to
England
, with her at
RAF
Mildenhall
and he at
RAF
Lakenheath
.
While
they were there, her
husband
participated
in
Operation
El
Dorado
Canyon
,
which
was a
United
States
bombing
raid
on
Libya
conducted
in
1986
.
Hunter
and her
husband
were then
divorced
, and she
returned
to the
United
States
,
leaving
the
military
,
obtaining
her
MBA
, and
settling
in
Greensboro
,
North
Carolina
with her
daughter
and
son
. She then
joined
the
Air
National
Guard
in
1988
as an
enlisted
member
,
continuing
to
work
primarily
as a
teacher
, and
remained
in the
Guard
for
ten
years
before
retiring
.
Place
San
Diego
(Calif.)
Type
image
Original format
photographs
Image type
Full uniform
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
WV0503 Yardley Nelson Hunter Oral History
Collection summary
October
2010
oral
history
interview
, a
name
tag
from the
Air
Force
Academy
.
Rights statement
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COPYRIGHT
. This
item
is
subject
to
copyright
.
Contact
the
rights
holder
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to
reuse
.
Object ID
WV0503.6.003
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
900815498
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