Perry, now a Madison Area Technical College court reporting instructor, worked as a stenographer for the U.S. Marine Corps in her previous life, typing up trial transcripts as fast as her fingers could fly. In 2008, the Corps began phasing out stenographers, who manually record court proceedings in real time, to a digital recording method that cost less money. Just two years from retirement and with no desire to learn a new approach, Perry refused. Which is how she spent her last tour with the Marines at Guantanamo Bay, chronicling the legal proceedings against some of those accused of coordinating the largest terrorist attack on American soil. “That’s how I got to Gitmo,” the.....MORE
