For Staff Sgt. LaShunda Rodgers, turning 30 wasn't just a typical milestone birthday with "Over the Hill" cards and black balloons.

Instead, it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity complete with a new wardrobe, style tips from fashion experts and a day full of filming for a television show on The Learning Channel.

Rodgers, stationed at Fort George G. Meade, was the guest of honor on British fashionistas Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine's new TLC show "Making Over America with Trinny and Susannah."

Rodgers, whose birthday was June 11, the same day of filming, said she answered a...