The Five Puro Sisters

Brigitte Kimichik • August 23, 2019
Check out these five awesome Puro sisters from Utah who each serve in the military with very different career paths!! From oldest to youngest, Tiara Puro is an operations officer at the Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Major Tambra West, is the G3 resource integration manager in the Utah National Guard, 1st Lt. Tayva Lab is a Cyberspace Operations Officer in the Utah Air National Guard and a system structural engineer working on the F-16 Falcon at Hill Air Force Base, Staff Sgt. Ty’lene Puro is an admin assistant in the Utah Army National Guard just returning from the Middle East, and Lt. j.g. Taryn Puro is a Naval Flight Officer stationed at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida. She flies the Boeing P-8 Poseidon. We appreciate and thank these five extraordinary women for their service!
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