NEEDHAM — After 10 years in the Navy as a fighter pilot – deployed in Japan and Washington state, Lt. Cmdr. Rebecca Ping secured a master of science degree in emergency management and began working for Needham in 2017 as the town’s emergency management administrator.
Then, in early 2018, the Naval reservist got a call to redeploy. Six months later, she found herself at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar assigned to a non-flying role in the U.S. military’s Combined Air Operations Center.
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