Dorothy Seaton, MAJ, US Army National Guard (Ret.), enlisted in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War in 1971. She attended Women’s Army Corps (WAC) basic training and served on active duty as a medical records photographer at Brooke Army Medical Center. After active duty she joined the National Guard, served in four different states, earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees, was commissioned, and commanded a Public Affairs Detachment. Dorothy is an award-winning Army photojournalist, an editor, and was the New Mexico Army National Guard’s Public Affairs Officer (PAO).

Dorothy is past President of the Bataan Chapter of the American Veterans for Equal Rights (AVER), past Vice President of Women Veterans of New Mexico, former Chair of the VMFC Committee on Veterans Advocacy and serves as a VMFC CD3 Vice Chair.