Interview with Tamara Becker

Abstract

Oral history with Tamara Becker who was originally opposed to joining the Army, but joined because she needed the structure the Army would give her. Becker did advanced individual training at Fort Sam Houston, a sixteen-week course in EMT training. Thereafter, she was stationed at Fort Hood, right after the 2009 shooting by Nidal Hasan. But the first gunshot wound she treated was when a private first class was shot coming out of a nightclub; Becker treated the woman before the paramedics arrived. From Fort Hood, Becker was sent straight to Afghanistan. Becker served in the Army from 2009-2014