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 Elaine Donnelly is President of the Center for Military Readiness, an independent public policy organization that concentrates on military personnel issues. CMR advocates high, single standards in training, assignment policies that are consistent with military realities as well as American cultural values, and sound defense spending priorities that strengthen morale, discipline and readiness. In October 2003 CMR celebrated its 10th Anniversary.
In 1984, then-Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger appointed Mrs. Donnelly to be a member of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS) for a three-year term. In 1992 she was appointed by President George H.W. Bush to serve as a member of the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces.
As a member of the DACOWITS and the presidential commission, Mrs. Donnelly participated in fact-finding visits to numerous military bases all over the country, including the Army’s Fort Bragg, three Marine training bases, the Naval Academy and U.S. Military Academy, several ships, submarines and a SEAL training facility. She has also experienced two “trap” landings on the carriers USS John F. Kennedy and USS Kitty Hawk, Air Force survival training at a prisoner of war camp, and a supersonic flight in the F-15 Eagle.
In 1997 Elaine Donnelly was the first woman to receive the Adm. John Henry Towers award from the New York Naval Aviation Commandery, in recognition of her support for naval aviation. The popular website NewsMax.com named her one as one of “America’s Most Heroic for 2000.” At the 29th Annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), she was presented with the prestigious Ronald Reagan Award for the year 2002.
Her articles on military personnel issues have been published in many newspapers nationwide, including the Washington Post, USA Today, Washington Times, and the Naval Institute’s Proceedings. Mrs. Donnelly has appeared on many network programs, such as CNN’s Crossfire and Prime News, NBC’s Today and Dateline, ABC’s Nightline, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, several FOX, CNBC, and MSNBC programs, PBS’s Lehrer Newshour and a 2-hour National Review “Firing Line” debate.
Elaine Donnelly has testified before congressional committees, and participated in public programs sponsored by the Naval Institute, the Indianapolis Economic Club, the 1997 First Marine Division Convention, Hillsdale College, the Foreign Policy Institute, and Ethics and Public Policy Center, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Eagle Forum, the Heritage Foundation, Independent Women’s Forum, and a number of events sponsored by veterans’ groups and military academy alumni organizations.
She attended the University of Detroit and Schoolcraft College, resides in Livonia, Michigan with her husband, Terry, and is the mother of two grown daughters.
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