Florence Job oral history transcription, 1997

Job, Florence, CDR, USN, NNC, 1922-. Reminiscences of career in Navy Nurse Corps, 1944-1947; Includes youth in Schenectady, N .Y.; Graduated from Mt. Sinai Nursing School, XY.in l943; Joined the Red Cross, then the Navy Nurse Corps; Indoctrination, Portsmouth, Va.; Orders to St. Albans NH; Navy nurses teach corps­ men and do little hands-on nursing; Recreation; Orders to San Diego NH, 1944-1946; Recreation and Housing; Camaraderie of NNC; V:J Day; Left NNC; Graduated from Catholic University with B. S. in 1949; Public Health Nursing; Recalled to Navy During Korean War; Assigned to Newport NH and taught corpsmen, Bainbridge, Md.; Assigned to San Diego NH and taught corpsmen; Re­ceived MA from San Diego State University; Orders to Guam where headed in-service education program; Social life; Assigned toJapan as nurse in Dependants School; Travel inJapan; Orders to San Diego; Great Lakes service education and corpsmen detailer; Orders to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as Chief Nurse; Charleston S.C., Chief Nurse; USS REPOSE, Vietnam; Life aboard ship; Recreation; Received South Vietnam Medal of Honor; Assigned to Great Lakes Corps School; Head, Nursing Education Department; Retired in 1974; Moved to Newport, RI.; Patient Care Co­ordinator, Newport Hospital, 1974-1982; Member, Navy Nurses Association and New England Division.