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Vivian Dennis (b. 1959), of Greensboro, North Carolina, served in the United States Air Force Nurse Corps from 1988-2018. Vivian Dennis was born December 30th, 1959, in Greensboro, North Carolina. She grew up in Gastonia, North Carolina and graduated from Hunter Huss High School in 1978. Dennis then decided to go to The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) to purse nursing. Dennis graduated in 1985 and then got a job at the University of Virginia's Medical Center. After working there for three years, Dennis met a military recruiter decided to join the United States Air Force Nurse Corps. In June 1988 Dennis completed her officer training at the Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas. Dennis was next stationed at Dyess Air Force Base in Texas where she was a nurse at the hospital on base. After four years, Dennis then deployed to Okinawa, Japan where she was a nurse in the newborn intensive care unit (NICU) at the naval hospital on base. Then, in 1994, she was stationed at Lakenheath Air Base in England where she was an obstetrics (OB) nurse. After two years, in 1996, Dennis returned to the United States and was stationed at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts, where she was a recruiter. She worked a recruiter for three years before transferring to Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, where she worked as a pediatrics nurse. After this Dennis worked at Falls Church, Virginia with TRICARE. While she there she worked in the Information Technology (IT) department helping with appointments. Dennis was deployed to Afghanistan twice during Operation Enduring Freedom where she oversaw the intensive care unit at Bagram Airfield in Kabul. Dennis was then stationed at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia before leaving the military in 2018. As of 2019, Dennis is working as a business consultant for a local business in Raleigh.