Colonel Frances Auclair, interviewed by Kim Sealy and Sarah Lawler, Part 3

Colonel Frances Auclair, interviewed by Kim Sealy and Sarah Lawler, November 29, 2001. Auclair talks about running away to join the army after hearing stories about other’s experiences in it; her parents’ experiences in the Army, followed by Auclair joining the Navy; basic training followed by her first military job; being a hospital corpsman for the Navy; inequalities between gender in the 1970s; a typical day in the military as a woman; her time working in a hospital in MA; her opinion on jobs and work policies; community support for military personal; how leisure time was spent in the hospital and how it is spent now; funny memories from in the military; worst part of working for the military; relationship between men and women in the military; treatment of women in the military in the 70s compared to now; having a medical role in the military versus being in combat. Text: 38 pp. transcript. Time: 03:05:18. Photographs: p14516-p14521. Listen: Listen: Part 1: mfc_na3245_c2355_01 Part 2: mfc_na3245_c2356_01 Part 3: mfc_na3245_c2357_01 Part 4: mfc_na3245_c2357_02https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf144/1068/thumbnail.jp