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March, 1975, somewhere in Texas, shortly after completing boot camp. They had assigned me to truck driving training, supposedly so I could drive emergency vehicles. I was not a good driver of these big trucks. I kept stalling them and got lost from the convoy. Oops! They gave up and transferred me into medic training, which was what I wanted and what I had enlisted for anyway.

Also some time in Spring, 1975. I don't remember much. This was at Ft. Sam Houston, TX.

October (I think) 1977. By then I had been in Turkey for longer than anyone else in my unit. This was considered a "hardship" tour of duty due to isolation, hazardous situations, and other reasons. I don't recall minding it too much. I had a sense of purpose, I knew what was expected of me, and most of my fellow soldiers could be trusted. Unlike civilian life. I had asked to complete my active duty enlistment there, rather than a transfer to Ft. Hood, TX. As I recall, this was at a ceremony for changing of the command.

From the old photo box, this time my own past. I have more photos of my grandfather's Army year than of my own 3 years. I was a medic. I believed, then, in what I was doing. Teenagers can have a clarity of purpose, unclouded by decades of living. I was very lucky. #ArmyService #soldier #1970s

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Switzerland will explore making women do mandatory service in the army, considered one of the famously neutral Alpine nation's founding pillars.

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