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SFC Darleen G. Adkins, USAR
Publication date: 15 May 2026
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title:
SFC Darleen G. Adkins, USAR
creator:
Adkins, Darleen Gail
subject:
Army Reserve | Army
description:
Darleen Gail Adkins was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in March 1967. She lived in the city until moving Westchester County, New York for high school. She joined the Army Reserves in March 2002, at the age of 35. At basic training, there was one other woman who joined at the age of 34. She was on Reserve duty in Maineville, Ohio until deploying to Iraq and Kuwait in 2004. Part of the way through this tour overseas, she was called in to speak to the Senate Armed Forces Committee, speaking to Senators and their aides as well as submitting a letter anonymously. Her deployment ended and she returned to the United States in 2005. She was still in the Army Reserves as of this interview, and for her service she had been awarded an Army Achievement Medal, Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal with 2 oak leaf clusters, National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Armed Forces Reserve Medal with M device and bronze hourglass, NCO Professional Development Ribbon, and Army Service Ribbon. As of the interview, Adkins had reached the rank of staff sergeant. No transcript of this interview is currently available.
publisher:
Military Women's Memorial Foundation
contributor:
Fee, Robbie
date:
2012-04-06
type:
Moving Image
format:
MiniDV
identifier:
011; 2012.011
source:
OHP | IMES
language:
English
relation:
612405
coverage:
Operation Iraqi Freedom (Iraq)—2003-2011 | 2002-2003 | 2003-2005 | 2005-interview
rights:
Unrestricted