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Twin sisters serve together in Army

Posted by Sean Myers on Feb. 12, 2016

A new staffer for Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) has a distinguished military background, which she shared with her identical twin sister.

Vanessa Hicks-Callaway and sister Jennifer Hicks-McGowan joined the Army in 1987 after graduating from Victoria High School in Texas. They intended to take advantage of the GI Bill and go to college but ended up staying in the Army and serving in the Middle East.

Hicks-Callaway served 23 of her 26 years in the Army on active duty and earned a litany of awards and decorations, including a Bronze Star, and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel. She served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.

Following her ambitions to one day run for political office, Hicks-Callaway starts in Congress as Farenthood's constituent liaison in his Victoria district office. Her sister, who also retired as a lieutenant colonel, is a professor of military science at Jackson State University.