SHERRY LYNN WOMACK – NOTHING WITHOUT PASSION
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Sherry Lynn Womack is recognized for her exceptional work to build a personal rapport with children and women of Afghan. She also devoted her life to promoting American culture in Afghanistan country of lowest literacy in the World by setting up LeeCounty NC School Board for education and to counsel children and women residing in the said country. She hard work spotlights that behind her successful career, she is herself. She never dreamed for the success she works for it. She is best known as Afghanis trusted Lt Col. because of her mission to serve the nation from an early age and she strives hard for it.
Sherry Lynn Womack earned many military and unit awards for her hard work as being a part of US Army. She entered the Army at age of 17 in 1981 as an enlisted medic at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. After attaining the rank of Staff Sergeant, she was accepted into and graduated from the Army’s Warrant Officer course, and just two years later she accepted a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant Medical Officer in the Army. Immediately following the tragedy of September 11, 2001, she deployed with the 101st Air Assault Division (Rakkassan Brigade) into Afghanistan. Deployed in the early stages of Operation Enduring Freedom January 2002, and mere hours after arrival, she was assigned the duty of triaging and treating Taliban prisoners at the Kandahar Air Base detention facility - some of the same individuals now occupying the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Later she was specially detailed as a Medical Liaison to U.S. Special Forces in theater and participated in highly experimental operations designed to provide medical care while gathering intelligence information from local Afghan citizens. Sherry Lynn Womack was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and Combat Medical Badge for her meritorious actions in Afghanistan. Her service in Operation Enduring Freedom is memorialized in a permanent exhibit at the U.S. Army Women’s Museum at Fort Lee, VA.
LTC Womack graduated from the U.S. Army Command and Staff College and in 2007 she deployed again for 15 months of combat duty in Iraq, for which she again received a Bronze Star Medal. After her return in 2008, she served as the first female 18th Airborne Corp Senior Physician Assistant and retired after serving as a Senior Physician Assistant with the US Army Forces Command and 33 years of active service. An active member of the Lee County Republican Party, Sherry-Lynn is the mother of five children and now occupies herself as a member of the Lee County School Board, the state Social Services Commission, and as a missionary to the Jamaican Deaf Village for the Caribbean Christian Center for the Deaf, where she teaches the sewing trade to deaf villagers. She and her family worship regularly at the Sanford Church of God. Sherry Lynn Womack life mission is that if you have knowledge let others light their candles in it. She believes that if you are afraid of struggle you are afraid of growth. She works hard for her love to serve the nation. She is a self-developed lady who pursues for personal and professional development goals. She respects the army values and performed her duty professionally, loyalty and admiralty.