The highlight of the ’89er Celebration comes on Saturday, April 18 with the ’89er Parade. American Legion LeBron Post #58, sponsor of the ’89er Week, announced the 2020 grand marshal for the annual parade in downtown Guthrie.
With the 2020 theme “Women of the Frontier” this year’s marshal will be Brig. Gen. Theresa M. Casey.
Brig. Gen. Theresa M. Casey, a Guthrie High School graduate, retired from the Air Force in December 2009 after 27 years of service. Brigadier General Theresa M. Casey retired from the Air Force in December 2009 after 27 years of service.
She presently serves as the Director, Trainee Health Surveillance, at Joint Base San Antonio Lackland, working health protection and human performance enhancement initiatives and issues for over 80,000 basic military trainees and technical and international students trained annually at Joint Base San Antonio Lackland.
General Casey began her career as a public health officer in 1982. She has held faculty positions at the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine where her responsibilities included classroom instruction, career development course publication and faculty enhancement programs.
She was one of three DoD medical staff initially deployed to Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo) for the Rwanda refugee crisis response and was the lead medical officer for Joint Task Force Shining Hope, the DoD humanitarian mission for Kosovar Albanians.
She was also deployed to Morocco for NASA space shuttle launch support. The general has commanded an air expeditionary group in Cameroon, Africa, and two Air Force hospitals. In her final assignment, she served as the Assistant Surgeon General for Modernization, overseeing Air Force medical contracting, research and information management.
She also coordinated the career management and policy for over 2,200 allied health officers as the Chief, Biomedical Sciences Corps.
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