Joint Expeditionary

Base Little Creek-Fort Story

Presents the

Women’s History Month

Program

MARCH 28, 2012 Little Creek Galley

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2012 National Women’s History Month Theme:

Women’s Education = Women’s Empowerment

Although women now outnumber men in American colleges

nationwide, the reversal of the gender gap is a very recent

phenomenon. The fight to learn was a valiant struggle waged by many

tenacious women—across years and across cultures—in our country.

Commander Monika

Washington Stoker is

a native of

Greensboro, North

Carolina. She was

commissioned in 1995

after graduating from

the United States

Naval Academy,

where she earned a

Bachelor of Science

Degree in Ocean

Engineering. Her first

assignment was

Presiding CMC Andrew Thompson

Schedule of Events

Occasion . .……………………….CSCM Carol Anderson

NAVSUP FLC Norfolk ,

National Anthem…………………LS2 Sylvia Robinson

ACU2

Invocation………………………. .Chaplain Sharon Wheaton

NAVSTA Norfolk

Welcome………………………. . . .CAPT Charles Stuppard,

Commanding Officer,

JEBLC/FS

Reading…………………………...CS2Jamie Vannostrand

Poem…………………………. .….CS1 Tameka Brown

FC1 Christina Riley

CS2 Aura San-Juan

CS3 Nehemie Pierre

Introduction of Guest Speaker... .CAPT Charles Stuppard,

Commanding Officer,

JEBLC/FS

Speaker…………………………. . .CDR Monika Washington-Stoker,

Commanding Officer,

USS Mitscher

Closing Remarks…………………CMC Andrew Thompson

Benediction………………………. Chaplain Sharon Wheaton

NAVSTA Norfolk

USS KEARSARGE (LHD 3) where she served as 3rd

Division Officer in Deck Department and finished her tour

as the Engineering Training Officer. CDR Stoker then

served as the Fire Control Officer and later the Weapons

Control Officer in USS COLE (DDG 67). Upon

completion of Department Head School in 2002, she

reported to the USS ARLEIGH BURKE (DDG 51) as

Weapons Control Officer and fleeted-up to Combat

Systems Officer. Ashore, she reported to the United

States Naval Academy as the Summer Training

Coordinator in the Professional Programs Division and as

a Naval Leadership Instructor in 2000. And finally in

2006, she served as the Future Operations Officer at

Navy Expeditionary Combat Command, responsible for

Global Force Management in support of the Global War

on Terrorism. CDR Stoker reported to MITSCHER in

June 2010 as the Executive Officer and assumed

command February 2012.