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<div>By Capt. Jane McWilliams Hardman, Medical Corps, U.S.N., Retired</div><div><br></div><div>Editor’s Note. The following is an excerpt of an oral history with Capt. Jane McWilliams Hardman from May 2018. In December 1973, then-Lts. McWilliams and Victoria Voge made history as the first female flight surgeons in the Navy. Hardman would go on to serve over 20 years in the Navy as a flight surgeon and aviation pathologist. Although retired in 1993, Hardman would briefly return to service after Sept. 11, 2001 serving as the laboratory director at Naval Hospital Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico. In this lightly edited excerpt, Hardman relates her first experiences in the Navy, and becoming a flight surgeon.<br></div>
<br>Subjects: Navy Medicine Live blog; flight surgeons; women's history; NH Roosevelt Roads;</div>
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U.S. Navy. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery</div>
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