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MPR News Staff
St. Paul, Minn.

Using lessons from deployment as a student

Vanessa Prebish
Vanessa Prebish, a National Guard member who served as a medic in Iraq, photographed Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014 at MPR studios in st. Paul. Prebish is a student at the University of St. Thomas studying Global Health.
Jennifer Simonson / MPR News

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Vanessa Prebish enlisted in the Army National Guard because she wanted to be a part of something larger than herself. She says her experience while deployed helped her become a better student and will be beneficial to her future in medicine.

Prebish was deployed for ten months to Iraq as a medic and returned in July of 2010. She is currently a studying global health at St. John's University.

This is the third in a series of conversations with veterans as part of Minnesota's Veterans' Voices Month. Listen to the first two conversations:

• Rose Bayuk, WWII veteran
 • Former Marine Nick Swaggert