Title	[Photograph of Tavia Brightwell, 2010]
Date	2010-06-30
Subject headings	Iraq War, 2003-2011 Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001- United States--Armed Forces--African Americans United States. Marine Corps--Women
Era	War on Terror, OEF, OIF (2001-Present)
Service branch	Marines Marines--Marines Reserve
Item description	Tavia Brightwell is seen here at the Jordanian city of Petra in 2010.
Veteran's name	Brightwell, Tavia I. Gilmore
Veteran's biography	Tavia I. Brightwell (b. 1985) served as an aviation maintenance clerk in the United States Marine Corps from 2006-2010 and then joined the Marine Reserves in 2010 . Tavia I. Brightwell (b. 1985), of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, served as an aviation maintenance clerk in the United States Marine Corps from 2006-2010. Her first deployment was to Iraq in 2008. In 2010 Brightwell was assigned to the USS Mesa Verde which deployed to 7 different ports worldwide including a humanitarian mission in Haiti. In October 2010 she left active duty and in December 2010 joined the Marine Reserves." As of 2013, Brightwell is a sergeant serving in the Marine Reserves and is an English major at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Place	Jordan
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	WV0540 Tavia Brightwell Oral History
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Additional rights information	NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID	WV0540.6.013
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	900815802

[Photograph of Tavia Brightwell, 2010]

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