Navicent Health host Veterans Day Event for employees

MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Navicent Health honored it’s employees who served in the Military with a Veterans Day Event.

Lieutenant Colonel Tracey Sapp, Commander of the 78th Medical Operations Squadron at Robins Air Force Base, was the speaker.

She talked about her experience in the United States Air Force and how she became interested in joining the military.

“It was truly my brothers experience in the military academy that really started to expose me to the military way of life, ” Sapp said.

Sapp joined the Air Force as an obstetrician nurse. She delivered babies, but she said she wanted to do more for her country, so she worked with air medical evacuation.

“I was able to support and transport many wounded warriors across the globe and that brought a very deep sense of service and pride,” she said.

Sapp was deployed to multiple places across the world and the situations she encountered humbled her.

“Especially when I was transporting our wounded veterans to Iraq and Afghanistan up to Germany so that they could get better care,” she said.

Sapp spoke at the Veterans Day event about her experience and fellow veteran Donald Smith said he heard a message through her speech.

“You know it takes all of us to work together to fight for the freedom of those that don’t have a voice,” Smith said. “The United States being one of the greatest armed forces in the world, we take pride in what we do to deliver those freedoms from those that don’t have a voice.”

And Sapp said serving in the Air Force has given her something.

“It has given me a larger family, than my own family. Every place that I go, I have a team of people, of Americans, that I served alongside that I am truly honored and privileged to be apart of, “she said.

A family that stretches from one side of the world to the other.