U.S. Navy Commander Zoe Dunning retired during a formal ceremony on the flight deck of the USS Hornet Museum in Alameda on June 2, 2007.
Dunning served 22 years in the military and went through a two-year ordeal in the mid-1990s to remain in the Navy after publicly declaring herself a lesbian at a rally for Keith Meinhold, who was kicked out of the Navy after he outed himself on "ABC World News Tonight." A federal court later reinstated Meinhold, who returned to work and retired in 1996.