Loretta Perfectus Walsh was sworn in as the Navy’s first chief petty officer on March 21, 1917.BOSTON – USS Constitution named one of their 24-pound long guns “Perfectus,” honoring the Navy’s first female chief petty officer on Sunday, March 21 during a Facebook Live...
From left to right: ROA National Chaplain Sherman Reed, ROA President Judith Davenport, and her husband John Davenport. Eighty members and 62 families participated in a majority post-deployment Yellow Ribbon event at the Grand Hyatt in Nashville, Tennessee from Feb....
The ROA Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas Chapter 18 Family Support Group sponsored a special Holiday Gift Drive for Local Military Families in the DFW area. During these unprecedented times, the need has been greater than the means and all donations big or small made a...
Retired Colonel Charles Long, a World War II veteran of the U.S. Army Reserve, passed away at age 107. He will be missed by all of us here at ROA, and to all those who knew him.A local news outlet interviewed the spunky, then 104-year-old, and published the interview...
