STILLMAN VALLEY — After growing up in Holcomb, Stacy Seaworth commissioned into the United States Army in 1994 as a second lieutenant out of the Illinois State University ROTC program as an aviation officer. Seaworth, now a Stillman Valley resident, spent the next 23 years on active duty and retired from the service in 2017 as a lieutenant colonel.
Seaworth’s duty assignments over the years included Fort Rucker, Alabama; Heidelberg Army Airfield in Germany; Fort Huachuca in Arizona, Hunter Army Airfield, the University of Iowa, Camp Arifjan in Kuwait, Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, COB Speicher in Iraq, Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii, Camp Al Udeid in Qatar, and Camp Humphreys in Korea.
Seaworth was first trained as a helicopter pilot, as all Army aviators are. She was at flight school at Fort Rucker for 18 months and went on to train in fixed-wing flight. Her career in the air included mostly military intelligence collection and VIP transport in fixed-wing aircraft…