WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — "He was a World War II veteran. I always admired him, and I wanted to be like my dad, so in 1975, I joined the Army," said Wanda Gail Collins.

She made her father proud and trained to become an ammunition storage specialist, spending her Army career shipping, receiving, and inspecting ammunition from small arms all the way up to missiles.

"I could have had a desk job, but I've always been a tomboy, and I like being outside working with my hands, so I chose that," Collins said.

She spent her first year and a half at Fort Stewart in Georgia, where she did some trailblazing when she wasn't inspecting ammo.

"I got another lady from the unit, and me and her were the first two females to ever make it through guerrilla warfare training with the 5th Special Forces group,

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