Word: hendrickse
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Growing up in suburban Pennsylvania, she recalls her father ceaselessly playing in the car the soundtrack to “Victory at Sea,” a television series about the Navy in World War II. The elder Hendricks, whom his daughter calls “one of my best...
“I think my father brainwashed me as a child,” Stephanie Hendricks giggles.
That Hendricks is a recruited player on the varsity squash team may have also been destiny: her parents’ first date was a squash match.
Just before starting college, Hendricks would sometimes get nervous about her impending commitment to the armed services. She says her father would remind her that this was a great time to be in the military.
Even as the country launched into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Hendricks says her dedication to the Navy only deepened.