Quin Stringham:  

Life After H.S... the short version I served in Army for 3 yrs, married Shand Stringham, an officer in the US Army, traveled around the world, adopted our five foreign children, graduated from small Oklahoma Univ in Home Economics with minors in Family Life Ed and Spanish in 1985, settled in Carlisle, PA after Shand's 26 yrs in Army, currently active in LDS church, home school my youngest, work as a Wellness Consultant and network marketer, I'm healthy, happy, and always busy! And I am also a grandmother to 3 and I love that! Military I entered the Army in June after graudating from HS in 1974. I was sent to Ft Jackson, S.C. for Basic Training. It was a rude awakening. I did well but not without a lot hard work and challenge. In those days we were still the WAC's... the Women's Army Corp. I had left home because of a challenging situation and felt like I had gone from the frying pan into the fire! From basic, I went to Ft Sill, Oklahoma to be trained in meteorology. I was a 93F... a Field Artillery Ballistic Meteorologist Crewman. I went to school and was the top in my class and was promoted to PFC upon graduation of school. I was on orders to go to Germany but because I was one of the first women trained in this MOS the Army was not prepared for women to go to field units. At the time I was very upset and tried to fight it but in the end I ended up being tricked into waiving my Germany guarantee and so I ended up staying at Ft Sill. In the end it was really a blessing in disguise! Religion is a blessing... I stayed at the Field Artillery school at Ft Sill and worked in the met station. We worked long shift hours, especially during tornado season. Instead of just running the met for the field artillery, we also ran met for the National Weather Service. Then I was offered an office job by the school's SGM. I hated typing in HS and never thought I would admit to anyone that I typed. But actually the job was not just working in an office. I had many responsibilities but with normal hours and I no longer had to pull night CQ duty at the battery. It was actually an answer to my p...Expand for more