Sherry Lynn Dodson Womack Papers

Sherry Lynn Dodson Womack (b. 1963), of Rockingham County, North Carolina, served in the United States Army from 1981-2004. In 2002, she was deployed to Kandahar, Afghanistan as a Combat Zone Triage Officer/ Special Forces Medical Liaison with 101st Airborne Air Assault Division. From 2007-2009, she was Deputy Commander of Clinical Services with the 261st Multifunctional Medical Battalion in Ballad, Iraq. She retired with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and earned both the Legion of Merit and the Bronze Star Medal for her service.

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Who's responsible?: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries (Repository)
How much has been digitized?: This collection has been digitized in its entirety.
What's in the full collection?: May 2018 and January 2020 oral history transcripts, copies of two scrapbooks; copies of audio diaries.
Full biography: Sherry Lynn Dodson Womack (b. 1963), of Rockingham County, North Carolina, served in the United States Army from 1981-2004. In 2002, she was deployed to Kandahar, Afghanistan as a Combat Zone Triage Officer/ Special Forces Medical Liaison with 101st Airborne Air Assault Division. From 2007-2009, she was Deputy Commander of Clinical Services with the 261st Multifunctional Medical Battalion in Ballad, Iraq. She retired with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and earned both the Legion of Merit
Topics: Women's History
Military
Branch of service: Army
Conflict: Post-Vietnam, Panama, Grenada (1975-1989)
Gulf War (1990-2000)
War on Terror, OEF, OIF (2001-Present)
Subject headings: United States--History--1945-
United States. Army--Women
Contributing Institution: Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries

: Audio diary of Sherry Lynn Dodson Womack (Part 1); Womack's audio diaries recorded during her deployment to Kandahar, Afghanistan as Combat Zone Triage Officer/Special Forces Medical Liaison attached to the 101st Airborne Air Assault Division, January-July 2002.

: Audio diary of Sherry Lynn Dodson Womack (Part 2); Womack's audio diaries recorded during her deployment to Kandahar, Afghanistan as Combat Zone Triage Officer/Special Forces Medical Liaison attached to the 101st Airborne Air Assault Division, January-July 2002.

: Oral history interview with Sherry Lynn Dodson Womack (Part 1); Primarily documents the life of Sherry Lynn Dodson Womack and her service with the United States Army. Womack recalls the influence that participating in the Reserve Officer Training Corps during high school had on her aspirations to make being a combat medic in the United States Army a career, as well as her growing realization that she needed to be in a medical field where she could show others that somebody cared about them. Her memories of being a Physician's Assistant student include assisting with one of the first acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) cases, working alongside a transgender medical assistant, and experiencing sexual harassment and sexism from senior officers and doctors. Womack discusses her experiences as a woman in the military, including the limitations that some women may have when it comes to certain jobs, but how she never let her gender hinder her work and making a difference in peoples' lives. She also discusses her readjustment to civilian life after retirement; including the imperativeness of becoming involved with local communities because, as she believes, she can make just as much of a difference on the outside of the military as she did in it.

: Oral history interview with Sherry Lynn Dodson Womack (Part 2); Primarily documents the life of Sherry Lynn Dodson Womack and her service with the United States Army. Womack recalls the influence that participating in the Reserve Officer Training Corps during high school had on her aspirations to make being a combat medic in the United States Army a career, as well as her growing realization that she needed to be in a medical field where she could show others that somebody cared about them. Her memories of being a Physician's Assistant student include assisting with one of the first acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) cases, working alongside a transgender medical assistant, and experiencing sexual harassment and sexism from senior officers and doctors. Womack discusses her experiences as a woman in the military, including the limitations that some women may have when it comes to certain jobs, but how she never let her gender hinder her work and making a difference in peoples' lives. She also discusses her readjustment to civilian life after retirement; including the imperativeness of becoming involved with local communities because, as she believes, she can make just as much of a difference on the outside of the military as she did in it.

: Sherry Lynn Dobson Womack scrapbook #1; Scrapbook compiled by Sherry Lynn Dobson Womack containing pictures taken during her thirty-three years of service in the United States Army.

: Sherry Lynn Dobson Womack scrapbook #2; Scrapbook compiled by Sherry Lynn Dobson Womack containing pictures taken during her thirty-three years of service in the United States Army.