Jill Corbusier Mayer (b. 1945) served in the Navy Nurse Corps from 1966-1976 and in the Reserves from 1976-1978. Jill Corbusier Mayer was born 27 January 1945 in Yonkers, New York, but spent her adolescence in Eastchester, New York. After losing both her mother and father at a young age, Mayer went to live with a friend of her mother's. She participated in Girl Scouts, sang in the school choir, and volunteered at a local hospital. After graduating high school in 1962, Mayer attended nursing school in Poughkeepsie, New York. In 1966, Mayer joined the United States Navy Nurse Corps and was sent to Officers Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island. Mayer was then posted to Naval Medical Center San Diego, where she worked in the neurosurgery ward, Intensive Care Unit, and Emergency Room. After three years, Mayer volunteered to work in the Intensive Care Unit aboard the USS Sanctuary, a hospital ship in Vietnam. In 1969, Mayer transferred back to United States and was stationed in Oakland, California, where she eventually became the head of the Ear, Nose, and Throat ward. For her work in Oakland, Mayer received the Navy Achievement Medal.After working in Oakland for two years, Mayer transferred to Subic Bay in the Philippines, where she met her husband, who was a United States Marine Corps pilot stationed in Iwakuni, Japan. After Subic Bay, Mayer was reassigned to Naval Air Station Lemoore in California for a year. In 1976, Mayer and her husband were married, and soon after she became pregnant. Mayer decided to leave the United States Navy in order to accompany her husband to his duty stations, which included Okinawa at one point. Mayer was part of the in the United States Navy Reserve from 1976 to 1978.
