Tiffany McKinley (2014)

Tiffany McKinley dismisses the stereotype of a single female personality in the military. For Tiffany, her interest in the Navy was activated by the spread of patriotism after 9/11. Tiffany became an information technology specialist, and finds herself helping her superior officers of an older generation with their computers, while manning the control centers of deployed ships. Tiffany feels lucky to have served in the Navy where females were widely accepted, noting that females in the Marines have difficult experiences in such a male-centric branch of the military. Now studying cognitive science at UC Berkeley, Tiffany is interested in further opening spaces for women in the military.