Phyllis Schlafly, ballistics gunner

It's amazing the tidbits of information you pick up reading book cover copy. From the back of a paperback edition of Strike From Space: A Megadeath Mystery by Phyllis Schlafly and Chester Ward (Pere Marquette Press, 1965) there is this:

Phyllis Schlafly is the author of the 1964 best-seller A Choice Not An Echo. Her study of military affairs dates from World War II when she was a ballistics gunner and technician at the largest ammunition plant in the world. She is the mother of six children and a Phi Beta Kappa with a Master's Degree in Political Science from Radcliffe College. In 1964 she received the St. Louis Globe-Democrat Award as "Woman of Achievement in Public Affairs."

This book, by the way, is not what you usually think of as a mystery. The "mystery" that Mrs. Schlafly and Rear Admiral Chester Ward, USN (Ret.) BS, LLB, LLM are addressing is 'what happened to Nikita Khrushchev - why was he ousted?'

Knowing as I do that the folks who write blurbs for books are sometimes more enthusiastic than accurate (to put it charitably), I went googling for confirming evidence of her stint as a gunner, and came up with, among other things, this blast from the past from 1975, which mostly talks about her opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment but also mentions that she is a former gunner. Actually, this bit of info about her showed up in several places; I don't know why it didn't hit my radar screen before now.