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Title	[Lieutenant Commander Sally Ann Weeks Benson onboard the USS Kitty Hawk, 1994]
Date	1994
Subject headings	United States. Navy--Women United States--History--1945-
Era	Post-Vietnam, Panama, Grenada (1975-1989) Gulf War (1990-2000) War on Terror, OEF, OIF (2001-Present)
Service branch	Navy
Item description	Lieutenant Commander Sally Ann Weeks Benson and Commanding Officer, Captain William Wilson "Bear" Pickavance, aboard the USS Kitty Hawk in the Sea of Japan; August or September 1994.
Veteran's name	Benson, Sally Ann Weeks
Veteran's biography	Sally Ann Weeks Benson was born 26 January 1947, in Aiken, South Carolina. She attended The University of North Carolina at Greensboro from 1965-1969 where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Home Economics with a Clothing major. Benson was a division sales manager at Hudson Belk before joining the United States Navy in 1981. She was commissioned into the United States Navy as an Ensign in July 1981 and served until August 2002. She retired with the rank of Commander. Benson served at many duty stations during her career. She attended officer training at the Naval Education and Training Center in Newport, Rhode Island from 1981-1984. She was stationed at Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut from 1985-1986; Naval Station Treasure Island near Oakland, California from 1986-89; Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy Annex, Arlington, Virginia from 1989-1992, and Naval Air Station Alameda in Alameda, California from 1992-1994. Benson served as Commander, Fleet Activities in Sasebo, Japan from 1994-1996, and then attended the Army Command General College in Leavenworth, Kansas from June 1996-June 1997. Afterwards she served with the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. from 1997-2000, and as Commander for the Naval Technical Training Center in Meridian, Mississippi from 2000-2002. Benson retired in May 2002 to Coats, North Carolina with her husband Eric Benson.
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	WV0579 Sally Ann Weeks Benson Papers, 1961-2015
Collection summary	March 2015 oral history interview, photographs, publications, correspondence, uniforms and textiles, insignia, artifacts, and audiovisual materials.
Series/grouping	2: Photographs, Undated
Box	4
Folder	1: Photographs, Undated
Finding aid link	http://libapps.uncg.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=728&q=
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	WV0579.6.002
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	935793005

[Lieutenant Commander Sally Ann Weeks Benson onboard the USS Kitty Hawk, 1994]

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