For Memorial Day we meet two women who made the military their lives. Captain Nori Ann Reed of Sanibel was the first woman assigned onboard Navy ships, and later was the first woman to have the honor of being Captain of three Navy ships. She commanded Naval Logistics Command, US naval Forces, Central Command operating ships and aircraft over 2.5 million square miles of water, including the Arabian Gulf, Indian Ocean and Red Sea in support of US military forces during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Captain Reed went to Cypress Lake High School in Fort Myers, FAU in Boca Raton and entered the Navy through Officer Candidate School. She’s now back on Sanibel.
Colonel Catherine Scott entered the US Air Force in 1974 as a distinguished graduate of the Reserve Officer Training Corps at the University of Georgia. She was the first woman to command an Air Force ROTC unit in the US. She served many years in criminal investigations as a special agent at the federal level. The last eight years of her career were with the US Special Operations Command in Tampa. Colonel Scott retired as the Deputy Director of the USSOCOM Washington Office in the Pentagon. She continued to serve the Department of Defense in a civilian capacity after her retirement from the Air Force.