ROA member Air Force Maj. Gen. Vanessa Dornhoefer greets a World War II veteran during a V-E Day ceremony at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., May 8, 2024.
Dornhoefer received the French National Defense Medal for work in Afghanistan as part of the Civil-Military Action Committee for the NATO Interallied Confederation of Reserve Officers from 2016 to 2018.
The Interallied Confederation of Reserve Officers, commonly referred to by its French acronym CIOR (for La Confédération Interalliée des Officiers de Réserve), represents the interests of more than 1.3 million reservists across 34 participating nations within and beyond NATO, making it the world’s largest military reserve officer organization.