Tina K. Morrison Oral History

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March 2014 oral history transcript

Tina K. Morrison (b. 1979), of High Point, North Carolina, served in computer automation repair in the United States Army from 2003-2006. Tina K. Morrison was born 27 December 1979 in High Point, North Carolina. She attended Fairview Elementary School and High Point Central High School, where she participated in an academically gifted program, as well as chorus and drama, and then served as student body president during her senior year. After graduation she attended The University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW) but dropped out after only a year. After leaving UNCW, Morrison returned to High Point and began to consider enlisting in the United States Army. She did eventually enlist, and was sent to Fort Jackson, South Carolina for basic training. Morrison then attended Advanced Individual Training at Fort Gordon, Georgia, where she was granted her request for a Military Occupational Specialty, or MOS, a focus on computers. Morrison's first duty station was Fort Hood, Texas. There she was put on guard duty and worked in the maintenance company, before deploying to Camp Cuervo in Baghdad, Iraq in March 2004. For the first six months Morrison worked exclusively as a tower guard. She then returned to the maintenance shop, where she was permitted to accompany other soldiers on military convoys. While in Iraq, Morrison participated in the “Adopt a U.S. Soldier” program. After returning to the United States Morrison decided not to reenlist in the army because of concerns that she would be deployed again. She left the military in 2006. Morrison enrolled at Guilford Technical Community College and then transferred to The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and graduated in 2014.

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United States--History--1945-
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