Eva Volkin:  

After high school, I went to University of Akron to pursue a nursing degree. I played piccolo in the marching band and flute in the symphonic band and absolutely LOVED IT!! I made lots of friends in both the marching band and nursing school. Friends who made a huge impact on my life. I realized for the first time, WOW, there is life outside of Chillicothe, Ohio!! I decided I wanted to explore more of the country and world. When I was a sophomore in college, I asked myself, wow, what am I going to do with the rest of my life. So I enlisted in the Navy under a commissioning program called Bachelors Degree Completion Program during the beginning of my junior year in college (1990). My only duty at the time was to keep my grades up and collect active duty pay. I became a commissioned officer upon receiving my Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing in May of 1992. After graduating college, I did a 3 year tour of duty in Pensacola, FL, with part of that time in Quantico VA (with the Marines during operation bulldog 1995 ooorah!). In 1996, I decided to be brave and take a tour of duty overseas in Yokosuka Japan, where I met my husband David Volkin a JAG corp. officer (that's military term for lawyer or judge advocate general). David soon became my life long partner and friend. We enjoy traveling together and traveled to Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Korea, Australia, Macau, Burma, Okinawa and Laos together while stationed in Japan. We got married in Randolph, MA (He's from Canton, MA) in April of 1998 and we then got stationed...Expand for more