"We ran out of bandages one week and had to use the Stars & Stripes newspaper." (Audio interview, Tape 1, 18:18)

Jeanne A. Urbin Markle

2nd Lt. Jeanne (Urbin) Markle, shortly after her wedding. Springfield, Ohio. 1966. [detail] War: Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Branch: Army Nurse Corps Unit: 93rd Evacuation Hospital; 24th Evacuation Hospital Service Location: Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Fort Carson, Colorado; Vietnam Rank: First Lieutenant Place of Birth: IN

Born, raised, and trained to be a nurse in Indiana, Jeanne Urbin joined the U.S. Army in 1965 as a way of seeing the world. A year later, she got her wish when she married an officer who was about to ship out to Vietnam. The Army needed nurses to go to Southeast Asia, Jeanne didn't want to be separated from her husband Brian, and she soon found herself caring for wounded and ill soldiers in conditions far more primitive than the sterile confines of a Midwestern hospital.