Kimberly Galloway Oral History
Content Description
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 20 December 2008.
Dates
- 2008 December 20
Creator
- Galloway, Kimberly (Person)
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Biographical / Historical
Kimberly Galloway (b. 1956), of Ashland, Oregon, served as a Morse systems operator in the United States Air Force Security Service from 1974 to 1979. Kimberly Galloway was born in Urbana, Ohio in 1956. She joined the United States Air Force after graduation from high school in 1974. Galloway received her basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.
Galloway, a general recruit, was then assigned to be a Morse systems operator for the security service after aptitudinal testing. She was subsequently stationed at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, for technical training. Upon graduation, she was stationed at Misawa Air Force Base, Japan: where she remotely tracked soviet-bomber movements.
In 1977, she was reassigned to Iraklion Air Station on the island of Crete, Greece. While stationed in Greece she met, and married, her current husband Paul Galloway. Galloway was later stationed at McGuire Air Force Base for a short time prior to her discharge. In 1979 Galloway was honorably discharged from the air force as a technical sergeant.
Extent
0.21 Linear Feet (1 folder )
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Condition Description
The condition is good.
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Processing Information
Processed by Matthew McCarthy.
- Title
- Kimberly Galloway Oral History
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Matthew McCarthy
- Date
- 2022 July
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Repository