Captain Mary Therese Klinker (1953-1975)
was a flight nurse during the Vietnam War in the Air Force Nurse Corps. The first Air Force women to receive orders for Vietnam were the nurses. Initially, only male nurses were deployed but in short order the demand outstripped the supply because women greatly outnumbered men in the Air Force Nurse Corps. By the end of the U.S. involvement in the war, the proportion of female officers serving was comparable to that of the male line officers in the Air Force, although female officers were employed chiefly in administration, clerical, personnel, data processing, and supply. On 4 April 1975, flight nurse Capt. Mary T. Klinker became the last American military woman to die in Vietnam (in total, 8 American women were killed*). As the war was drawing to a close and Saigon was about to fall, President Gerald R. Ford announced the evacuation of more than 2,000 South Vietnamese and Cambodian children, mostly orphans. Known as "Operation Babylift," it began tragically when the aircraft carrying infants, flight crew, and caregivers, crashed shortly after taking off from the Tan Son Nhut air base outside Saigon, killing 138 of the 314 people aboard including Capt. Klinker. She was 27, from Lafayette, Indiana. She was posthumously awarded the Airman's Medal for Heroism and the Meritorious Service Medal. She is also on the Vietnam War Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C. at location 01W 122.
* In the war, about 50,000 Americans died and between 2-4 million Vietnamese died. At least half a million Vietnamese deaths were civilians.
The Drink:
Singapore Sling:
1 1/2 oz gin
3/4 oz cherry brandy
3/4 oz Benedictine
3/4 oz Cointreau (upgraded to Grand Mariner)
1 oz orange juice
3/4 oz lime juice.
Shake with ice and then top with 2-3 oz club soda, a pineapple wedge, orange slice, and marashino cherry. (Created at Raffles Hotel in Singapore in 1915 by bartender Ngiam Tong Boon)
Drinkability: 4
Drunkability: 4
Taxic Diversity: 4
Accessibility: 4
Priority for Conservation: 5.5 (how did we get over 5?)
Comments: n/a
From Women of Vietnam hosted by BallBuster
was a flight nurse during the Vietnam War in the Air Force Nurse Corps. The first Air Force women to receive orders for Vietnam were the nurses. Initially, only male nurses were deployed but in short order the demand outstripped the supply because women greatly outnumbered men in the Air Force Nurse Corps. By the end of the U.S. involvement in the war, the proportion of female officers serving was comparable to that of the male line officers in the Air Force, although female officers were employed chiefly in administration, clerical, personnel, data processing, and supply. On 4 April 1975, flight nurse Capt. Mary T. Klinker became the last American military woman to die in Vietnam (in total, 8 American women were killed*). As the war was drawing to a close and Saigon was about to fall, President Gerald R. Ford announced the evacuation of more than 2,000 South Vietnamese and Cambodian children, mostly orphans. Known as "Operation Babylift," it began tragically when the aircraft carrying infants, flight crew, and caregivers, crashed shortly after taking off from the Tan Son Nhut air base outside Saigon, killing 138 of the 314 people aboard including Capt. Klinker. She was 27, from Lafayette, Indiana. She was posthumously awarded the Airman's Medal for Heroism and the Meritorious Service Medal. She is also on the Vietnam War Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C. at location 01W 122.
* In the war, about 50,000 Americans died and between 2-4 million Vietnamese died. At least half a million Vietnamese deaths were civilians.
The Drink:
Singapore Sling:
1 1/2 oz gin
3/4 oz cherry brandy
3/4 oz Benedictine
3/4 oz Cointreau (upgraded to Grand Mariner)
1 oz orange juice
3/4 oz lime juice.
Shake with ice and then top with 2-3 oz club soda, a pineapple wedge, orange slice, and marashino cherry. (Created at Raffles Hotel in Singapore in 1915 by bartender Ngiam Tong Boon)
Drinkability: 4
Drunkability: 4
Taxic Diversity: 4
Accessibility: 4
Priority for Conservation: 5.5 (how did we get over 5?)
Comments: n/a
From Women of Vietnam hosted by BallBuster
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