Randy Carol Goguen served as an enlisted Marine and a Navy Yeoman in the reserves before she was commissioned as a naval intelligence officer in 1987. She retired at the rank of Commander in 2010 with more than 32 years of naval service. She was employed as the civilian historian for the Office of Naval Intelligence from 2002 until her retirement in 2022. She resides in Fairhaven, Maryland.

For 21 years, I represented “the fighting spirit of the Navy and those who have gone before me” without fully understanding how accurate those words in the Sailor’s Creed are. Goguen’s From Yeomanettes to Fighter Jets changed that. It is an exceptionally well-written journey through the history of women in the Navy. Like many who joined because of 9/11, I had no illusions of what I was getting into. Service and sacrifice are universal, and we were at war. However, I had no genuine appreciation of how far women in the Navy had come or how many hard-won battles it took to allow me to continue what they started. This book captures the history of those who refused to accept the status quo, individuals who intrinsically understood that accepting things just because “that’s the way it’s always been done” are accepting mediocrity and ceding the advantage to the enemy."—Ama M. Adair, CWO, USN (Ret.) and author of the Elle Anderson Thriller Series.“Randy Goguen brilliantly lays out the critical connection between the halting advances of women in the US Navy from World War I until today and how this followed the general advance of women in society. Goguen gives a detailed and highly readable account of the intense struggle in the cultural, legislative, and political, as well as naval, fields to move women from their early role as non-combatant shore-based typists to aviators, submariners and, now, commanders of carriers.”—Kathleen Broome Williams naval historian and author of Grace Hopper

Randy Carol Goguen served as an enlisted Marine and a Navy Yeoman in the reserves before she was commissioned as a naval intelligence officer in 1987. She retired at the rank of Commander in 2010 with more than 32 years of naval service. She was employed as the civilian historian for the Office of Naval Intelligence from 2002 until her retirement in 2022. She resides in Fairhaven, Maryland.

For 21 years, I represented “the fighting spirit of the Navy and those who have gone before me” without fully understanding how accurate those words in the Sailor’s Creed are. Goguen’s From Yeomanettes to Fighter Jets changed that. It is an exceptionally well-written journey through the history of women in the Navy. Like many who joined because of 9/11, I had no illusions of what I was getting into. Service and sacrifice are universal, and we were at war. However, I had no genuine appreciation of how far women in the Navy had come or how many hard-won battles it took to allow me to continue what they started. This book captures the history of those who refused to accept the status quo, individuals who intrinsically understood that accepting things just because “that’s the way it’s always been done” are accepting mediocrity and ceding the advantage to the enemy."—Ama M. Adair, CWO, USN (Ret.) and author of the Elle Anderson Thriller Series.“Randy Goguen brilliantly lays out the critical connection between the halting advances of women in the US Navy from World War I until today and how this followed the general advance of women in society. Goguen gives a detailed and highly readable account of the intense struggle in the cultural, legislative, and political, as well as naval, fields to move women from their early role as non-combatant shore-based typists to aviators, submariners and, now, commanders of carriers.”—Kathleen Broome Williams naval historian and author of Grace Hopper