Andrea Chandler

Andrea Chandler
AllegianceUnited States
Service / branchUS Navy
Years of service1998-2008
Battles / warsOperation Iraqi Freedom
AwardsNavy Achievement Medal
Other workfarmer
WebsiteManor of Mixed Blessings

Andrea Chandler is an American farmer, writer, and retired sailor. After enlisting in the United States Navy in 1998, Chandler worked as a guided missile specialist on various destroyers,[1] serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom, for which they were awarded the Navy Achievement Medal.[2] Retiring in 2008, they worked on missile systems at a defense contractor before switching to small-scale agriculture,[1] their interest spurred by 4 chickens they had been given as a wedding gift.[3]

As a farmer and science communicator, Chandler has worked with The Livestock Conservancy[4] and been covered in The Independent[3] and The Piedmont Virginian.[5] As a Navy veteran and commentator on veterans' issues, they has been published or quoted in AlterNet,[6] Quartz,[7] and XoJane.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Campbell, Dan. "For Farm and Country" (PDF). Rural Co-Operative (July/August 2016). US FDA. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  2. ^ a b Chandler, Andrea (January 28, 2013). "It Happened To Me: I Served In Combat, Despite The "Ban" On Women In Combat". XoJane. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  3. ^ a b Gander, Kashmira (January 10, 2017). "Runaway piglets and goat psychology: A woman's adventures in farming". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2017-03-08. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  4. ^ "2016 Rabbit Workshop". The Livestock Conservancy. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  5. ^ Burros, Marian (February 25, 2016). "Turning Swords into Plowshares". The Piedmont Virginian. Archived from the original on 21 April 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  6. ^ Smith, S.E. (June 20, 2014). "Why Are Huge Numbers of Disabled Students Dropping Out of College?". AlterNet. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  7. ^ Berlatsky, Noah (May 31, 2016). "Chronic pain patients are suffering because of the US government's ongoing War on Drugs". Quartz. Retrieved 1 February 2017.