Jane Fraley Kodack Collection
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Oral history interview with Jane Fraley Kodack
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Primarily documents Jane Kodack's service with the ANC from 1981-1993, and her education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) from 1963 to 1967. Kodack discusses attending UNCG in the first years after it became co-educational; returning to school after having children in order to become a nurse; and her civilian nursing jobs. She remembers her time in the army, including what prompted her to join and her family's reaction; the dissolution of her marriage and leaving the Reserves to become active duty; her time at Fort Sill, Oklahoma with the MEDDAC [Medical Department Activity] unit and the 47th Field Hospital; earning an Army Commendation Medal after a training accident at Fort Sill; attending Combined Armed Services Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; being part of Operation Bright Star at Cairo West Air Base in Egypt; her final deployment to Wuerzburg Germany; and her reaction to being medically discharged at the end of her service. " She includes her opinions on the Hyde Amendment; military pay; women in combat; the military as a career; the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; and feminism. Also included are her experiences with gender discrimination in the military; transition to civilian life; the change in attitude toward men in the nurse corps; experience as a woman at a training exercise at Camp Bullis in Texas; and her friendship with Major General Vincent K. Brooks.
