| Interviewee | SCHNITTKER, Shelley (b. 1967) |
| Military Service | U.S. Navy Veteran |
| Interview ID # | OH 1773 |
| Date(s) of interview | |
| Description | For the Women Veterans Oral History Project. U.S. Navy Avionics Technician, Persian Gulf War-era Veteran. Childhood in Arlington, Texas; effects of parents’ divorce; experience in drug rehab; reasons for joining the Navy; training in a job recently opened to women; experience in an all-female company at boot camp; life at duty station in San Diego, California; reaction of family to enlistment; experience as part of a detachment aboard the aircraft carrier USS Constellation; thoughts on women in combat; thoughts on expanding role of women in the Navy in the early 1990s; first marriage to another seaman; attending Baylor University; [reaction of other students to veteran status; lack of support for women veterans at Baylor; shellback ceremony; advice for future generations of women in the military]; unreported sexual assault during “A” school (job training); advice to victims of military sexual trauma. |
| Interviewer(s) | Amy Hedrick |
| Physical Description | 73 pp. plus documents (3 pp.) |
| Terms of Use | Open |
