Bengals Celebrate Salute to Service During Week 10

As the Salute to Service spotlight, the Bengals highlighted Cmdr. Becky Calder. She served as an F/A-18 pilot and was the first woman pilot to graduate from the Navy’s Strike Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN). During her 15 years as a pilot, she supported Operation Southern Watch, Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. At the Naval Academy, she played varsity basketball and was the first woman to have her varsity number retired.

As part of the team’s community commitment, the Bengals partnered with Operation Ramp It Up for the third year in a row to fund and build a ramp for a veteran. Bengals players worked to build and install the ramp for 58-year-old Army Veteran James Angel. Operation Ramp It Up provides mobility to military veterans and others with disabilities and their families by installing aluminum wheelchair ramps at their place of residence, when other traditional resources have been exhausted.