Interview of Laura Jacquelin Coggin on her career in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps

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Description:

Laura Jacquelin "Jackie" Coggin talks about her youth in Georgia and Florida, her education and her 20 years in the Army Nurse Corps. Coggin says that she first graduated from the Macon Hospital School of Nursing in 1953, later earned a a bachelor's degree in nursing education administration and then a master's degree from the University of Alabama in 1963. She says that in 1965, while teaching at University of Southwestern Louisiana, an Army recruiter talked her into joining the Army Nurse Corps as a way of financing a trip to Europe. She talks about her first duty stations and says that she decided to extend her enlistment because she liked the way the Army moved her around. She also talks about living and working in Hawaii and Germany and traveling throughout Europe and says that the military changed the way she thought about peoples' motives and points of view and that she learned to look at problems much differently. Coggin is interviewed by Ruth Stewart and Patricia Martin.

Date Issued:

2007-03-26T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Michigan State University. Libraries

Collection:

Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project

Place:

Europe, Germany, and Landstuhl

Subject Topic:

Career in military nursing, Travel, Knowledge, Nursing, Military life, Foreign service, Nurses, Women veterans, and Military nursing

Subject Name:

Coggin, Laura Jacquelin, 1931-2013, Coggin, Laura Jacquelin, 1931-2013, Coggin, Laura Jacquelin, 1931-2013, Coggin, Laura Jacquelin, 1931-2013, United States, Army Nurse Corps, United States, Army, United States, and Army

Subject Genre:

Interviews, Interviews, Interviews, and Interviews

Language:

English

Rights:

In Copyright

URL:

https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5jh7q