Roth, Brenda Oral History

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Brenda Roth (maiden name King) was born in May 1956 in Greenbriar, WV. Her father was an auto-technician and her mother was a housewife. Her father served in Korea. She grew up in Newport News, Virginia. After high school, she went to college, but soon moved to California to be with her boyfriend. It did not work out, and she married another person who worked for Lockheed and moved to Iran to the Imperial Air Force base in Bandar-Abbas Iran. She then met a friend who was in the Air Force and decided to join. Going back home, she went to the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ and got into the ROTC program. Brenda did tech training in Biloxi, MS as an administrative officer before moving on with her husband Tim to Myrtle Beach, SC. While there she worked as an admin, an adjunct, an executive asst., and in squadron section command. She was getting her masters degree at the University of South Carolina at the time, had recently been promoted to Captain, and was then selected to teach history at the Air Force Academy. She moved to Boulder, CO as her husband retired from the Air Force. After 3 years of teaching, she applied for a program through the Air Force Material Command where she could get funding for a PhD in instructional technology, eventually applying and being accepted to the University of Virginia. After college, she went to Montgomery, AL eventually finding a role as a squadron operations officer. She was promoted to Lt Colonel and then moved to Washington DC to work at the Pentagon in the military education branch. In her last two years in the service she worked in the Air Force Intelligence Analysis Agency with an Analyst team. When she left the military she got a job with the National Defense University, eventually becoming the deputy Vice President of Academic Affairs.