#WeAreLilly - 37,000 global employees #PoweredbyPurpose “I joined the Navy nurse corps two months after graduating from Indiana University. I was stationed at Naval Hospital Bethesda, now named Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., then called up for Desert Storm/Desert Shield in 1990. I was on the United States Naval Ship Comfort in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Saudi Arabia. The USNS Comfort was vital in providing surgical and acute medical care to military forces. I worked in triage, critical care and assisted with surgical procedures. I come from a military family. My role in the Navy allowed me to treat patients from the US Marine Corps, whom I respect, and the great men and women of the sea. The Navy taught me not only to be a nurse to the patients but to be their family as well. Patients were away from home, in a hospital, facing inconceivable medical emergencies. Everyone pulled together and became family and advocates for the patients. After t...