Brenda Finnicum
Lieutenant Colonel, Army Nurse Corps
Retired
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Brenda Finnicum |
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| Tribe: Lumbee | |||||||||||||||||||
| Came on Active Duty: September 1978 as a Second Lieutenant | |||||||||||||||||||
| Served 20 years Active and 2 years Reserves | |||||||||||||||||||
| Job Specialist: 66 J-Staff Nurse, 66H- Medical-Surgical Nurse, 66F-Nurse Anesthetist | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Awards: Meritorious Service medal | |||||||||||||||||||
| Army Commendation medal | |||||||||||||||||||
| Army Achievement medal | |||||||||||||||||||
| Army of Occupation medal | |||||||||||||||||||
| National Defense Service medal | |||||||||||||||||||
| Army Service Ribbon | |||||||||||||||||||
| Overseas Service Ribbon | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Assignments: Tripler Army Medical center, Hawaii; Fort Rucker, Alabama; 114th Evacuation Hospital, (Reserves), San Antonio Texas; Berlin Army Hospital, Berlin, West Germany; Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC; National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California; Keller Army Community Hospital, West Point, New York | |||||||||||||||||||
| Temporary Duty Assignments: Turkey, Italy, West Germany, and various state side assignments to include Fort Lee, Fort Bragg, Fort Sam Houston, Fort Leavenworth | |||||||||||||||||||
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| She was inspired to enter the service by her uncles who served in WW II. Especially by her fathers brother, a paratrooper, who was a POW in WWII, served in Korea and was killed in Vietnam. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Brenda was the only female and officer in her family to join and retire from the military. | |||||||||||||||||||
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This picture of me was taken when I was stationed in West Berlin, West Germany. (I was a captain then) That was before the wall came down. I am standing next to an East German guard in front of the East German War Memorial. Living 110 miles behind the Iron Curtain, I experienced the "Cold War" first hand. |
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Brenda is currently retired and researching the history of American Indian women in the military |
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