Air Force Capt. Dawn M. Morales entered the United States Air Force in October 1998 and attended Basic Military Training at Lackland Air Force Base (AFB), in San Antonio, Texas. After twelve years, she was accepted to the Nurse Enlisted Commissioning Program for the Air Force in 2010. Following her commission, Capt. Morales graduated from the University of South Florida, in Tampa, Florida with a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing. Her nursing career began as a student in the Nurse Transition Program with a subsequent clinical assignment to the Family Birthing Center at Keesler AFB, in Biloxi, Mississippi. As a Registered Nurse, she dedicated over nine years of service to inpatient obstetric care and was assigned to the Maternal Child Flight Labor and Delivery (L&D) Unit at Travis AFB. In 2017 Capt. Morales returned to school to obtain her advanced practice degree in women’s health. Capt. Morales is now serving as a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner at the 60th Surgical Operations Squadron on Travis, AFB. In this position, she delivers comprehensive obstetric and gynecologic care in the Air Mobility Command’s largest women’s health clinic servicing Department of Defense beneficiaries.