Jacqueline Rogers, contract administrator, Directorate of Records Quality Management

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ARPC Spotlight --  Jacqueline Rogers, contract administrator in the Directorate of Records Quality Management, is the ARPC Spotlight of the week.

Ms. Rogers has 20 years of federal civil service, and served seven years in the U.S. Navy as a photographer's mate. She began working at ARPC in December. She said she has come "full circle" in her government career after beginning her naval enlistment in Colorado Springs in 1970.

Her hobbies are genealogy, travel and history.

What are your most memorable experiences working for the government? 

I was at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., during the Oklahoma City bombing, so I knew several people in the bombing. 

I was at Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio, during 9/11 and our base was one of the first to send military planes over the site of the plane that went down in Pennsylvania. 

I was also working at Tinker AFB during Operation Desert Storm. I was a buyer for the B-52 Bomber during that time. 

I was the contracting officer signing for the chemicals needed for the spray mission at Youngstown ARS during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The spray mission kept the bug environment down after the hurricanes. 

I am a Vietnam-era veteran. I got to shake hands with then-President Gerald Ford during a visit to a navy base in Norfolk, Va. 

I saw then-President Richard Nixon pass through Hawaii on his way to China. I saw the prisoner of war veterans pass through Hawaii after getting out of Vietnam. 

I have seen a lot of military and government history.

If you could change one thing about ARPC what would it be? 

I'm not sure. Between civil and military service, I have more than 27 years working for the government. I like the government. I used the GI Bill to get my bachelor's degree, and at Tinker AFB the government paid tuition assistance as I worked through my master's program. 

Civil and military service gave me a chance to live in Washington, Florida, Virginia, Oklahoma, Ohio, Hawaii and Colorado. I have seen Canada, Guam, Midway, Vietnam, Mexico and the Philippines. Overall, it has not been a bad life. Of course, I always wanted to see Europe. I have had friends stationed in England, Germany and Italy.

What would you like to do when you retire? 

Genealogy and travel ahigh on my list, but also spending time with my children and three grandsons.