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Colonel Regina Aune

1970's -- Then Lt. Col. Regina Aune, 437th Medical Operations Sqaudron commander, Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., recounts an experience in Vietnam that saved and changed lives. While a lieutenant in the spring of 1975, flight nurse Regina Aune became the first and only woman to receive the Cheney Award, recognizing an act of valor "in a humanitarian interest performed in connection with aircraft." She did it saving orphans during "Operation Babylift."

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