Just following-up in my last post COVID-19 is not a joke even if Mitch McConnell thinks so. I mentioned his opponent in the senate race in Kentucky and the debate, Amy McGrath.

Unlike Senator McConnell, Amy McGrath does not find the plight of people dealing with the health and economic effects of COVID-19 to be funny. She would actually like to help people in Kentucky and around the county.

So here are a few highlights from her website. She brings much experience to her campaign and i think she will be much better for both the people of Kentucky and Americans around the county.

Amy attended the U.S. Naval Academy and was commissioned as a Marine Corps officer in 1997. She went on to serve 20 years in the Marines.

During this tour, she completed two combat deployments, and flew 89 combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, targeting al-Qaida and the Taliban. In 2002, as a weapons systems officer, Amy became the first woman in the Marine Corps to fly a combat mission in an F/A-18.

After her operational flying tours, Amy served as a Congressional Fellow advising a senior member of the U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee on defense and foreign policy. Subsequently, she served in the Pentagon as Marine Corps’ liaison to the State Department and other federal agencies.

She earned a masters degree in global security from Johns Hopkins University and she is a graduate of the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction’s Program for Emerging Leaders at the National Defense University. Her final assignment was as a senior instructor in the Political Science Department at the US Naval Academy before retiring at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and moving back home to Kentucky to raise her family.

I’ll leave it there but check out her website if you want to lean more.