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Mary Galster Layton Starkey was born 26 October, 1949, in Buffalo, New York. Influenced by the stories of her father's service in World War II as well as the boys in her high school going off to fight in the Vietnam War, she wanted to be a U.S. Army Nurse. In 1968, she took the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery test and was recruited for her high-test scores. Starkey joined the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in 1968 and did basic training at Fort McClellan in Alabama and then medical training at Fort Sam in Texas. She was then sent to work in Walter Reed at the National Military Medical Center in Washington D.C where she worked as a medic with obstetrician doctors in 1969. Shortly after Starkey then got pregnant and was discharged from the military. In 1975, Starkey [...] Read more
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