From left to right: Circa January 2008, then Majors William A. Allen and Stephen R. Allen, brothers and retired United States Air Force pilots, are pictured at McEntire Joint National Guard Base in Hopkins, South Carolina. Their mother, Martha Coley, an accountant in the Resource Management Division, supported their careers as a member of the Blue Star Mothers of America organization. BSMA’s approximately 200 chapters across the United States join mothers, stepmothers, grandmothers and female legal guardians who gather in support of their children and the nation’s troops.