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<p>By L.A. Shively Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston Public Affairs.<br><br>Lt. Cmdr. Deborah “Lynn” Redman’s deployment to Afghanistan landed her in prison. Not as an inmate – but as a reserve Navy nurse. On her arrival in the war-ravaged country, she realized a strong desire to help Afghan women and children through outreach missions, first from Forward Operating Base (FOB) Farah, near Iran, and then later from FOB Wright in the Kunar province to which she was assigned. At first her requests were denied. But after successive appeals, Redman was allowed to work with a Special Forces team training the Afghan Army. Together with a Provincial Reconstruction Team, she embarked on missions outside the wire. That persistence, coupled with her life-saving work, helped her earn unprecedented international recognition – the Red Cross’ Florence Nightingale Medal, the highest award a nurse may receive."<br></p>
<br>Subjects: Afghanistan; American Red Cross; Navy Medicine magazine;</div>
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U.S. Navy. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery</div>
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