Considered by many to be the best female footballer the sport has ever seen, Mia Hamm’s life started with little evidence of what lay ahead.

And it all started with the USAF… (more…)

Early life

Alba was born in Pomona, California, to Mark Alba, who is Mexican American (though both of Jessica Alba’s paternal grandparents were born in California),^[1] and Catherine Jensen, who has French and Danish ancestry; the two married while in their teenage years.^[2][3][4] Her maternal grandfather was a Marine NCO for thirty years, serving in the Pacific during WWII, and later as Asst. Drum Major for the United States Marine Band. Alba was raised in an Air Force family, along with her brother, Joshua, an actor who appeared with her in the season one finale of Dark Angel, and her grandparents until she was 17 years old. Her father’s Air Force career took the family to Biloxi, Mississippi and Del Rio, Texas, before they settled back in California.

“I’m a military brat, actually an Air Force Brat – and proud of it.”
—Robin Roberts

As one of the anchors of ABC’s Good Morning America, a pioneer in Sports Reporting and a breast cancer survivor, Robin Roberts embodies some of the exceptional traits of a military brat: Courage, Perserverance and Resilience.

She has found an audience as an inspirational speaker and author as well. Read about Robin’s “8 Rules to Live By” here!

Robin Roberts: YOU are our hero!