APPLETON, Wis. (WFRV) – Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Raquel Durden didn’t always plan on a military career.
“I had it in my head that I was going to go to college since I was in the first grade, but I didn’t really figure out how I was going to pay for that, so I enlisted really for money for college and to travel the world,” Durden said.
That decision led her across the globe — nearly 40 countries later — with deployments ranging from combat to humanitarian missions.
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“My last deployment I had on active duty was a humanitarian mission — and it kinda sits in my heart well,” she said…