JBA Honor Guard all-female colors team performs at the Women’s Memorial

A four-woman ceremonial colors team with the Joint Base Andrews Honor Guard poses for a photo at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial, Arlington, Va., March 5, 2021. Senior Airman Tasha Delong, Senior Airman Kaitlyn Stone, Airman 1st Class Daphanie Barnes-Dixon, and Airman 1st Class Gabriella Martinez presented the colors and performed a ceremonial flag fold for the retirement ceremony of Lt. Col. Lisa Christensen, 89th Deputy Group commander of the Presidential Airlift Squadron at JBA. (Photo by Senior Airman Jalene A. Brooks)

Senior Airman Kaitlyn Stone (front) and Airman 1st Class Daphanie Barnes-Dixon (behind) of the Joint Base Andrews Honor Guard, practice a ceremonial weapons sequence in an art gallery at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial, Arlington, Va., March 5, 2021. Stone participated in both the presentation of the colors and the ceremonial flag fold for the retirement ceremony of Lt. Col. Lisa Christensen, 89th Deputy Group commander, held there that day. (Photo by Senior Airman Jalene A. Brooks)

A four-woman ceremonial colors team with the Joint Base Andrews Honor Guard waits in line at the beginning of a ceremony at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial, Arlington, Va., March 5, 2021. Senior Airman Tasha Delong, Senior Airman Kaitlyn Stone, Airman 1st Class Daphanie Barnes-Dixon, and Airman 1st Class Gabriella Martinez presented the colors and performed a ceremonial flag fold during the retirement ceremony of Lt. Col. Lisa Christensen, 89th Deputy Group commander. (Photo by Senior Airman Jalene A. Brooks)

Airman 1st Class Gabriella Martinez and Senior Airman Kaitlyn Stone, Joint Base Andrews Honor Guards women, present the colors at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial, Arlington, Va., March 5, 2021. The colors team also performed a ceremonial flag fold for the retirement ceremony of Lt. Col. Lisa Christensen 89th Deputy Group commander of the Presidential Airlift Squadron at JBA. (Photo by Senior Airman Jalene A. Brooks)

Airman 1st Class Gabriella Martinez of the Joint Base Andrews Honor Guard presents the colors at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial, Arlington, Va., March 5, 2021. Martinez served as an intelligence analyst with the 89th Operations Support Squadron on JBA before being handpicked to join the Ceremonial Honor Guard. (Photo by Senior Airman Jalene A. Brooks)

Senior Airman Tasha Delong and Airman 1st Class Gabriella Martinez fold an American flag for Lt. Col. Lisa Christensen’s, 89th Deputy Group commander, retirement ceremony at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial, Arlington, Va., March 5, 2021. After receiving the ceremonial flag as a representation of her years of dedication to the service, Christiansen gifted the flag to her mother. (Courtesy photo by Master Sgt. John Operana)