Colonel Regina Aune

Colonel Regina C. Aune, USAF NC (U.S. Air Force)

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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