Biography- Lieutenant Colonel Sherry-Lynn Womack, U.S. Army (Retired)

1. Sherry Lynn Womack
Biography- Lieutenant Colonel
Sherry-Lynn Womack, U.S. Army
(Retired)

2. Sherry Lynn Womack

3. Lieutenant Colonel Sherry Lynn
Womack
• Lieutenant Colonel Sherry Womack entered
the Army at age 17 in 1981 as an enlisted
medic at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. After
attaining the rank of Staff Sergeant, she was
accepted into and graduated from the Army’s
Warrant Officer course, and just two years
later she accepted a commission as a 2nd
Lieutenant Medical Officer in the Army.

4. Sherry Lynn Womack
• Immediately following the tragedy of September
11, 2001, Sherry deployed with the 101st Air
Assault Division (Rakkassan Brigade) into
Afghanistan. Deployed in the early stages of
Operation Enduring Freedom January 2002, and
mere hours after arrival, she was assigned the
duty of triaging and treating Taliban prisoners at
the Kandahar Air Base detention facility- some of
the same individuals now occupying the prison at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

5. Sherry Lynn Womack
• Later she was specially detailed as a Medical
Liaison to U.S. Special Forces in theater and
participated in highly experimental operations
designed to provide medical care while gathering
intelligence information from local Afghan
citizens. Sherry was awarded the Bronze Star
Medal and Combat Medical Badge for her
meritorious actions in Afghanistan. Her service
in Operation Enduring Freedom is memorialized
in a permanent exhibit inside the U.S. Army
Women’s Museum at Fort Lee, VA.

6. Sherry Lynn Womack
• LTC Womack graduated from the U.S. Army
Command and Staff College and in 2007 she
deployed again for 15 months of combat duty
in Iraq, for which she again received a Bronze
Star Medal. After her return in 2008 she
served as the first female 18th Airborne Corp
Senior Physician Assistant and retired after
serving as a Senior Physician Assistant with
the US Army Forces Command and 33 years of
active service.

7. Sherry Lynn Womack
• An active member of the Lee County
Republican Party, Sherry-Lynn is the mother of
five children and now occupies herself as a
member of the Lee County School Board, the
state Social Services Commission, and as a
missionary to the Jamaican Deaf Village for
the Caribbean Christian Center for the Deaf,
where she teaches the sewing trade to deaf
villagers. She and her family worship regularly
at the Sanford Church of God.