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Title	[Maribeth Snyder Peters leaning against car]
Date	Undated
Subject headings	Vietnam War, 1961-1975 United States. Army--Women
Era	Vietnam Era (1964-1974)
Service branch	Army--Army Nurse Corps
Item description	Maribeth Snyder Peters leans against a blue convertible, next to an unnamed individual. Peters is on the left and is attired in a light blue Army Nurse Corps with various insignia.
Veteran's name	Peters, Maribeth Snyder
Veteran's biography	Maribeth Snyder Peters (b. 1947) served in the Army Nurse Corps from 1968-1971. She was stationed at the 93rd Evacuation Hospital in Long Binh, Vietnam . Maribeth Snyder Peters was born in 1947 in Troy, New York, where she was also raised. While in college, she signed up to enter the United States Army Nurse Corps upon graduating, and after completing her bachelor’s degree in nursing in 1969, she entered the service. Peters went to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas for basic training, and was then assigned to Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina. She spent September of 1969 through January of 1970 at Fort Bragg, before getting orders to Vietnam. During that time, she also met and then married her husband. In Vietnam, Peters was assigned to the 93rd Evacuation Hospital in Long Binh, and spent approximately fourteen months there. Upon returning to the United States, she was assigned to Fort Polk, and soon chose to have children and leave the service in 1971.
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Full uniform
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	WV0530 Maribeth Snyder Peters Oral History
Collection summary	March 2012 oral history interview.
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0530.6.003
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	900815959

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