Margaret DeLillo-Storey has been tapped as Stark County's military veteran of the year for 2025.

DeLillo-Storey served as an officer in the U.S. Army reserves for 23 years.

She was deployed in 1990 overseas during Operation Desert Storm.

PERRY TWP. – Margaret DeLillo-Storey was a 28-year-old staff sergeant when she went through U.S. Army officer candidate school in late 1989 and early 1990 at Fort Benning, Georgia, a program primarily geared toward men.

Strict curriculum and long training days-nights were the norm, as one of a handful of about 50 women to graduate from the strenuous 22-week training. Approximately 100 men in her class successfully completed the program.

At the time, men and women had to meet the same requirements, said DeLillo-Storey, including physical training fro

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