Shaye haver biography of albert

JOINT BASE MYER-HENDERSON HALL, Va. — Growing up as a self-proclaimed “Army brat,” Maj.

Shaye Haver was an 11-year-old growing up in Fort Novosel, Alabama, when she got her first inkling, while watching the events of 9/11 unfold, that perhaps she wanted to be part of the community that worked to defend America.

When she was 12, Haver said she remembers asking her mother if women can have careers in the military, to which her mother responded, “Yeah, they're lawyers and doctors and pilots and stuff like that.”

Haver, a 2012 graduate of the U.S.

Military Academy at West Point, said helping people is in her DNA. Initially, she thought she wanted to do something in the medical field, but as it turns out she took a completely different path.

Haver commissioned as an aviator and attended flight school at Fort Novosel.

As an aviator, she said she felt like she could make a significant contribution to the military either