A special Veterans Day Quilts of Valor presentation honored a husband-and-wife team for their military service.
The presentation to Mary K. and L. Scott Jacobson took place at The Center, where Quilts of Valor, Fairfield Glade, members Paula Ochoa and Janice Cahill had a table to honor veterans and thank the Jacobsons for their service.
Capt. Mary K. Jacobson grew up in DeKalb, IL. She attended the University of Illinois, College of Nursing, for her bachelor’s degree, then graduated from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh College of Nursing with a Master of Science nursing degree, specializing in advanced primary care.
Mary entered the U.S. Navy in 1990 as a nurse practitioner. She provided health care in hospital clinics while stateside and in the Middle East, deployed field hospitals while in Cuba, and served shipboard on the USS Forrestal and USS Detroit, also serving as the Acting Force Surgeon while assigned to Naval Central Forces Command in Bahrain.
She served as chief of the Naval Operations staff as the director, Navy Reserve Force Health Policy and Planning for seven years.
Her final active duty assignment was as executive officer of Navy’s Wounded Warrior Program, Navy Safe Harbor.
Capt. L. Scott Jacobson was raised in Reading, MA, and attended Northwestern University. After graduating, he joined the Navy in 1969 for flight training, flying the A-7 Corsair II.
He flew from the USS Midway, USS Saratoga, USS America and the USS Forrestal, amassing more than 3,500 flight hours and 1,100 carrier arrested landings (traps).
After his command tour aboard Forrestal, he went into the intelligence community, serving in Greece as the defense attache.
L. Scott finished his Naval career after 27 years in 1996.