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Lieutenant Commander Bobbi Hovis,
USN (ret.) "was commissioned
in the Navy Nurse corps in 1947 after
graduating from the Western Penna.
Hospital School of Nursing, Pittsburgh
PA in 1946 As a 23 year old Ensign
stationed in Key West, Fl. She
qualified for her pilot’s license and
purchased a Piper j-3 aircraft, before
she owned her first car. In 1950 after
completing Navy Flight Nurse School
she flew the pacific on the Korean
Airlift with the 1453 Medical Air
Evacuation Squadron. Lieutenant
Commander was the first Navy nurse to
volunteer for Vet Nam duty from 1963 –
1964 at the Naval Station Hospital
Saigon – the first full facility
hospital in Viet Nam (facesofvalorusa.com).” Lieutenant Commander Bobbi Hovis is the author of Station Hospital Saigon: A Navy
Nurse in Vietnam, 1963-1964.
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| One reader said of Station
Hospital Saigon: A Navy Nurse in Vietnam, 1963-1964, “A competently written, understated, detailed account
by a nurse assigned to the first military hospital in Vietnam. Interesting not only because her tour was early, but because
Hovis was a Navy nurse.” |
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