[6][3] After graduating from the US Coast Guard Academy, Dickey became a cutterman performing search and rescue, coastal law enforcement and homeland protection.

[3] Dickey served as the Deputy Director of Operations for United States Northern Command.

[4] She has also served as then-Vice President of the United States Joseph Biden’s Special Advisor for Homeland Security, Counterterrorism and Africa.

[2] She has been stationed throughout the globe including the Arctic, Latin America, the Bering Sea, the Middle East, and the Caribbean.

Naval War College with a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies.