The 11th Annual BRAVO Awards sponsored by the Ventura County NAWBO Chapter named Debbie Gregory, CEO and founder of MilitaryConnections.com, as Woman Business Owner of The Year 2009.  MilitaryConnections is an online registry-based site designed to help present and past military personnel and their families find each other and keep in touch.  The site is free to members and offers an array of resources to help past and present military personnel take advantage of their hard-earned military benefits.  Originally, the information available on the site was listed in a print directory, but Debbie realized that the world was moving online so she reinvented her business and transitioned from a print publication to an Internet portal.