Sydney Gallegos (b. 1997), of Fort Smith, Arkansas, served in the United States Marine Corps from 2015-2021.
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries (Repository)
Digitization of this collection is still in progress.
February 2022 oral history transcript, hat device, scanned documents and 2015 Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina .
Sydney Gallegos (b. 1997), of Fort Smith, Arkansas, served in the United States Marine Corps from 2015-2021. Sydney Gallegos was born 25 March 1997 in Fort Smith, Arkansas. She went to Northside High School and graduated in 2014 and then enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. She spent eight months working out to meet weight requirements and then went to bootcamp on 2 March 2015 at Parris Island in South Carolina. After basic training she went to two advanced training schools, A School for Naval Aviation technical training at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida and B School at Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia for specific training as a Reconfigurable Transportable Consolidated Automated Support System (RTCASS) avionics technician. Gallegos first duty station was in Japan at the Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni from 2016-2018. While she was there, she earned a Collateral Duty Inspector qualification. From 2018-2021, Gallegos was stationed at Marine Corps Air Station in San Diego, California where worked a work center called 610/64 Charlie. Gallegos ended up extending her five-year enlistment for an extra year and left the military in August 2021 and enrolled at the University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG) as an international business major.
Women's History Military
Marines
War on Terror, OEF, OIF (2001-Present)
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
