Nguyen Wins

On May 2 Iowa Cadet Anastasia Nguyen received VVA’s first-place JROTC scholarship award and the VVA JROTC medal. She is the first to receive this award and was selected from finalists from ten states. She is flanked (from left) by Bettendorf Chapter 776’s Lyle Peterson, her mother Eve Nguyen, and Iowa State Council President Gregory Paulline. Second place went to Rhode Island Cadet Chendra Rivera; third place to Louisiana Cadet Destiny Mitchell.