Mom joined the Navy in September 1952. She attended boot camp in Bainbridge, Maryland from September to November. Following boot camp, she was stationed in San Diego where she attended the U.S. Navy School for Hospital Corpsmen at Balboa Naval Hospital. As Mom had the top grade for women in her class, she was given the first choice from the available duty stations. She wanted New Orleans but that was not a choice so chose Corpus Christi as it was close to New Orleans.
By January 1954 she was working in a family clinic on a naval base in New Orleans where she met my father. Mom and Dad married and I came along. Mom did not remain in the Navy as women who became pregnant were discharged from military service in the 1950s. However, she did serve as a Navy wife until my father's retirement in 1969.
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© 2021 Interview with E. M. Bryan (VA), by D. B. Quinn, 8 October 2021. Transcript held in 2021 by D.B. Quinn (VA).
Photo from Boot Camp, photograph, ca. 1952; scanned image, from the privately held photo collection of D. B. Quinn, VA, 2021.
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