Rhonda A. Rasgorshek A Veteran's Story

Rhonda A. Rasgorshek was raised in a military home. She was born at Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota, went to school at Edwards AFB in California, and then transferred down to Howard AFB, Panama with her father, James Merryfield. Merryfield was active duty in the United States Air Force.

Rasgorshek moved again, but this time to Kimball, Nebraska, while her dad finished his tour in Panama. Upon his completion, Rasgorshek and her family joined her father in Illinois, where her dad would be stationed at Scott AFB.

This military influence would put a call into her years later. She graduated from...