February Luncheon

Women in Iraq and their roles as "Soldier, Mom, Sister & Daughter"

February 23, 2005
Georgetown Club
2440 S. 141 Circle
Omaha, NE

Janet Tate
Staff Sergeant

SSG Janet Tate has served with the United States Army Reserves for the past three years. She deployed to Iraq with the 450th Movement Control Battalion. Her unit moved eight times while they were there serving in Iraq and Kuwait. SSG Tate had an eight personnel team that set up check points to log in convoys and report their presence at the checkpoint. They moved to Garma railhead and setup rail operations 5 miles east of Fallujah. Those rail operations served as
a humanitarian aid point for Northern Iraq. It developed into a supply route for US Army supplies. The unit then proceeded to Southern Iraq to set up a Combat Service Support area for convoys heading North. Their last assignment took them to the border of Kuwait and Iraq to track all movements of convoys in and out of Iraq.

SSG Tate served in the Active Army from 1981 to 1992 as a Counter Signals Intelligence Analyst serving in several countries such as Germany, Italy, and Panama. One of her assignments took her to Maryland at the National Security Agency for 3 years. She served in the Gulf War as a Special Security Officer responsible for a communications section and Compartmented information facility
for the 1st Cavalry Division. She ended her career at that time to get married and raise children. She has 2 beautiful boys 12, and 8.