To the Filipina veterans, active duty servicewomen, and unwavering military families within the Filipina Women's Network, we offer our deepest gratitude.

Your sacrifices are woven into the fabric of our community. We acknowledge the burdens you carry, the moments missed with loved ones, and the unwavering commitment you've made to protect our freedoms.

Your valor is an inspiration. You stand as testaments to courage, strength, and unwavering dedication. You have served with honor, defending not just our nation, but the very rights that empower Filipinas around the world.

You are more than soldiers. You are mothers, daughters, sisters, leaders within the FWN. You are the embodiment of our community's strength and resilience.

We honor you, we celebrate you, and we thank you.

May your service be forever remembered, and may you find continued strength and support within the FWN family.

US AIR FORCE

COL Commander Ariel Batungbacal, Global FWN100™ 2013

April 2024: President Joe Biden has nominated Commander Batungbacal of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for promotion to brigadier general.

Colonel Batungbacal is commander of NASIC and leads a $2.1 billion center with four groups, four directorates and 16 squadrons. She oversees an annual budget of more than $570 million and nearly 3,500 employees. NASIC assesses threats to national security in the air and in space for the federal government and the military.

US AIR NATIONAL GUARD

COL Shirley Saoit Raguindin

FWN Board Member (2009-2014); US FWN100 2007; Global FWN100™ 2013

Executive Director, Defense Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, Department of Defense, Director, Military Equal Opportunity, Office of Under Secretary of Defense, Personnel and Readiness, Director, Diversity Operations at National Guard Bureau, Chief Diversity Officer, Air National Guard,

US ARMY

Rida T. R. Cabanilla, US FWN100™ 2007, Global FWN100™ 2014

American politician and nurse who has served as a Democratic member of the Hawaii House of Representatives from 2018 to 2020, representing District 41. Cabanilla also formerly represented District 41 in the House from 2012 to 2014 and District 42 from 2004 to 2012.
Business Owner, Cardioupulmonary Diagnostic Services Inc, Kalihi Kai Urgent Care. Lt. Colonel in US Army Reserve (retired),

COL Rebecca Samson (retired), US FWN100™ 2007
Volunteer Staff, USO of Metropolitan Washington-Baltimore, Troop Support Division Chief, service medalist in the US Army Service, femtor to Filipina women in the military.

COL Amelia Duran-Stanton SP, PA-C, PhD, DSc, MPAS, DFAAPA, U.S. Army, Global FWN100™ 2013

COL Amelia Duran-Stanton is currently the Army Medical Specialist Corps Specific Branch Proponent Officer at JBSA-Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Her military and medical career began in basic training in the early 1990s. She was a patient administrator for eight years where she was stationed in Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico and Fort Carson, Colorado and attained the rank of staff sergeant.

US NAVY

Connie Mariano, Rear Admiral (retired), US FWN100™ 2007
First military woman as physician to the President of the United States; first woman director of the White House Medical Unit; and first Filipino American to become a rear admiral in the U.S. Naval history,

Captain Paz Gomez (retired) one of the first women in the Navy Civil Engineer Corps, survived the Pentagon attack on 9/11, made history when she was named commanding officer at Port Hueneme in California.

PS1 Lorna Mae DeVera, US FWN100™ 2007.

US Navy (retired), SMIT (NMCI) Customer Advocacy Manager SMIT (NMCI) at Leidos, former Consultant, Navy / Marine Corps Programs: Navy Account Segment; Interim Field Service Lead WYND

LTC Cynthia Aloot RN, MN, Lieutenant Colonel (retired), VA Hospital, US FWN100™™ 2009

Vice Admiral Raquel Cruz Bono (retired) MD, MBA, FACS, MC, USN., FWN100™ 2009

Principal, RCB Consulting, LLC, Chief Health Officer, Viking Cruises, Director, Washington State COVID-19 Pandemic Health Management, CEO, Defense Halth Agency. First female Navy medical officer to achieve the rank of three-star admiral and was the second director of the Defense Health Agency. United States Navy

Eleanor Valentin, RDML (retired), Global FWN100™ 2013.

Senior Health Care Executive, U.S. Navy Director, Military Health System Governance Implementation Planning Executive Secretariat, United States Navy. First female Medical Service Corps officer to obtain the rank of flag officer, as well as the first female to serve as Navy Medical Service Corps director. She was the second Filipino-American woman to achieve the rank of Rear Admiral.