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Title	[Photograph of Army 1450 Transport Company HQ 1st Platoon]
Date	2005-12
Subject headings	Iraq War, 2003-2011 United States. Army--Women
Era	War on Terror, OEF, OIF (2001-Present)
Service branch	Army--Army National Guard
Item description	This photo shows members of Army 1450 Transport Company HQ 1st Platoon in December 2005, distributing clothes, shoes, toys, and school supplies to children in the the southern Iraqi village of Safukin. All of the materials were donated by people in Schoonover's hometown of Blowing Rock, North Carolina.
Veteran's name	Schoonover, Natasha Sudderth
Veteran's biography	Natasha Sudderth Schoonover from Boone, North Carolina, served with the Army National Guard as a Heavy Wheel Vehicle operator driving between the Persian Gulf to the Iraqi border. She served from 1995-2005 and retired with the rank of sergeant. Natasha Suddreth Schoonover was born in Boone, North Carolina and raised in Blowing Rock, North Carolina." Due to learning difficulties Schoonover dropped out of high school a few months before her graduation and decided to pursue a career in the Army National Guard. She attended basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and was then assigned to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, where she learned to drive tractor trailers." Once she returned to Boone, Schoonover was assigned to the 1451st Transportation Company, where she worked with Active Duty for Special Work [ADSW], as well as helping with the recovery from Hurricane Floyd in 1999." In January 2003, Schoonover was activated to go to Iraq, but having given birth three months prior
Place	Iraq
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Work 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	WV0544 Natasha Sudderth Schoonover Papers
Collection summary	February 2013 oral history and photographs and digital scans of newspaper articles.
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	WV0544.6.003
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	900815838

[Photograph of Army 1450 Transport Company HQ 1st Platoon]

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