Nelda Achee

Nelda Achee served for 21 years in the U.S. Coast Guard, retiring as a Chief Petty Officer. She was in charge of overhauling ship diesel engines worth millions of dollars to make sure they could do 26 knots (about 30 miles per hour). She would oversee dry-docking of ships in order to make them seaworthy again. She would manage projects where crews had to cut holes in ships to replace turbines. But when Nelda Achee, mother of three children, grandmother of seven, returned home to the Navajo … [Read more...] about Restaurateur in the Making