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Title
[Linda
Jones
visiting
U.S
.
Army
troops
in
South
Korea
,
1969]
Date
1969
Subject headings
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
American Red Cross
Era
Vietnam Era (1964-1974)
Service branch
Red Cross
Red Cross -- Red Cross Reserve
Item description
Linda
Jones
, on
left
,
visiting
U.S
.
Army
troops
with
fellow
American
Red
Cross
workers
in
1969
.
Veteran's name
Jones, Linda
Veteran's biography
Linda
Jones
served
in the
American
Red
Cross
in
Korea
in
1968-1969
and in
Saudi
Arabia
during
Operations
Desert
Shield
and
Desert
Storm
.
Linda
Ruth
Johnson
Jones
was
born
in
1944
in
Charlotte
,
North
Carolina
,
where
she also
grew
up
.
Upon
graduating
from
high
school
in
1962
, she
spent
her
first
year
of
college
at
St
.
Andrews
Presbyterian
College
in
Laurinburg
,
North
Carolina
before
transferring
to
UNC
Greensboro
,
graduating
in
1966
with a
bachelor’s
degree
in
elementary
education
.
Jones
then
worked
as a
teacher
at a
Dependents
School
at
Camp
Lejeune
,
North
Carolina
for a
year
before
entering
the
American
Red
Cross
in
September
of
1968
. She
attended
a
brief
training
in
Washington
D.C
.
before
going
to
Camp
Pelham
in
Korea
,
where
she
stayed
until
January
before
going
to
Camp
Red
Cloud
in
Uijeongbu
,
where
she
remained
until
returning
to the
United
States
in
September
of
1969
. At that
time
,
Jones
taught
in
Atlanta
,
Georgia
for
six
months
before
returning
to the
Red
Cross
.
Upon
re-entering
the
Red
Cross
,
Jones
was
assigned
to the
Naval
Regional
Medical
Center
in
Charleston
in
Charleston
,
South
Carolina
as an
assistant
station
manager
and then
recreation
supervisor
, from
1970
to
1974
. She was then
assigned
to
Naval
Regional
Medical
Center
in
Millington
,
Tennessee
from
1974
to
1977
.
Next
,
Jones
went
to
Royal
Air
Force
Station
Alconbury
in
England
, from
1977
, and
upon
returning
to the
States
, to
Shaw
Air
Force
Base
in
Sumter
,
South
Carolina
as a
station
manager
,
where
she
met
her
husband
.
Both
of them then
went
to
Fort
Bragg
in
Fayetteville
,
North
Carolina
in
February
of
1981
. From her
assignment
at
Fort
Bragg
,
Jones
deployed
to
Saudi
Arabia
with the
82nd
Airborne
as
part
of
Operation
Desert
Storm
. She also
deployed
to
Tuzla
,
Bosnia
for
four
months
in
1998
,
after
training
at
Fort
Benning
and in
Grafenwoehr
,
Germany
.
Jones
then
received
orders
to
return
to
England
, and
chose
instead
to
retire
in
1999
.
After
a
year
, she
re-entered
the
American
Red
Cross
as
part
of the
reserve
corps
in
2000
,
taking
various
short-term
assignments
Travis
Air
Force
Base
in
Fairfield
,
California
,
Walter
Reed
National
Military
Medical
Center
in
Bethesda
,
Maryand
, and
Womack
Army
Medical
Center
at
Fort
Bragg
. She
retired
from the
reserve
corps
in
2004
.
Type
image
Original format
photographs
Original publisher
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection
WV0291 Linda Jones Papers
Collection summary
The
collection
contains
an
April
2011
oral
history
interview
; a
journal
,
Jan-Feb
1991
;
photocopies
of
travel
authorizations
;
photocopy
of
Third
U.S
.
Army's
Central
Region
Area
Orientation
booklet
;
photocopy
of a
photo
of
Jones
in
uniform
;
Red
Cross-issued
deck
of
cards
; and
Red
Cross
desert
camouflage
uniform
(jacket
,
pants
with
belt
,
daisy
mae
hat
,
boots)
.
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IN
COPYRIGHT
. This
item
is
subject
to
copyright
.
Contact
the
rights
holder
noted
above
for
permission
to
reuse
.
Object ID
WV0291.6.016
Digital publisher
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 --
http://library.uncg.edu/
OCLC number
900812278
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