As a child, Aldaisia “Daisy” Donald didn’t need to look far to find her inspiration.
“My dad is a retired lieutenant colonel in the Army, and I’ve always been a daddy’s girl,” said Donald, a radiation control technologist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility and nine-year U.S. Navy veteran. “Growing up, he would always be gone on deployments, and when he came home, I remembered thinking, ‘He’s a hero.’ I always wanted to be like him.”
One of the U.S. Marine Corps’ 11 leadership principles stands out the most to Davis Wright, a user-support technician II at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.
“Know yourself and seek self-improvement.”
As a high-school senior in 2011, he knew he wanted to find that wisdom.
