Military Career
After completing her regular education, Coleman joined the U.S. Air Force as a Second Lieutenant while continuing her graduate work for a Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In 1988 she entered active duty at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as a research chemist. During her work she participated as a surface analysis consultant on the NASA Long Duration Exposure Facility experiment. In 1991 she received her doctorate in polymer science and engineering. She retired from the Air Force in November 2009.
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