• Sister Cheryl O’Brien RAAF Vietnam Veteran

  • Aug 30 2024
  • Length: 51 mins
  • Podcast

Sister Cheryl O’Brien RAAF Vietnam Veteran

  • Summary

  • On today’s episode of Care Under Fire, I catch up with Sister Cheryl O’Brien. Cheryl served as a RAAF registered nurse and midwife during the Vietnam war. Based out of Malaysia, Cheryl nursed servicemen and their families on Penang Island and worked in the Butterworth Military Hospital. She also flew medivac missions out of Vung Tau, Vietnam to Butterworth and to Australia. Cheryl reflects on the diversity of her military nursing career from delivering babies to treating snake bites to evacuating ventilated casualties from Vietnam as well as the incredible advances in nursing care seen over her 47 years of nursing.

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