Veronica Wayne

Veronica Wayne was born on an Air Force base in Grand Forks, North Dakota where her father served as a communications specialist. By the age of 10 she had lived with her family in Langley, Virginia; Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, Ramstein AFB, Germany where she had begun to learn German at the age of 8. A science whiz during high school, she was quickly accepted to Northern Arizona University and became a sister of Alpha Delta Pi Sorority. But, within less than a year she followed in her father's footsteps and enlisted to serve. By the age of 19 Veronica was an F-14 flight mechanic, attached to a fighter squadron serving on the USS Harry S. Truman and deployed 2 weeks after arriving to her new command to replace the battle group with the USS Cole after it's bombing attack in Yemen. She was trained as a plane captain during her first deployment, supervising all pre and post flight checks for F-14 flight operations. Later she was transferred to Naval Base Pearl Harbor where s