Paula Crawford-Gamble RN, MSN, CAPT, NC, USN (Ret), an acute care trauma nurse at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania fulfilled a lifelong dream by joining the Navy Nurse Corps. Only months later Crawford-Gamble landed in Saudi Arabia at a Casualty Processing Unit in Jubail to treat those injured during the Persian Gulf War. This experience led her to become the first Navy reservist to earn Aircrew Wings. Later, she led the Medical Department as a captain aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. George Washington (CVN-73), She also served as a flight nurse with Marine Aircraft Group 49 and the Navy Operational Medical Institute (NOMI), Also as Reserve Executive Officer and Commanding Officer of Portsmouth Naval Hospital, with the Marines, Crawford-Gamble helped to design and operationalize Joint EnRoute Care, a program to promote a streamlined mode of medical transport for the injured warrior.