CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA REALTOR® JANE ‘GI JANE’ FRENCH EARNS HER MILITARY RELOCATION PROFESSIONAL (MRP) CERTIFICATION

CHARLESTON, SC, UNITED STATES, April 1, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Jane French, also known as “G.I. Jane,” is a very wise, compassionate, caring, well-educated, and devoted real estate agent at eXp Realty in Charleston, South Carolina.

Jane was born in Warrensburg, Missouri, and because her father was in the Air Force, she and her family lived in Mississippi, Maine, Oregon, Greece, Germany, and Alabama, where she graduated from W.P. Davidson High School in Mobile. She had always wanted to be a veterinarian, so she enrolled at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and then transferred to Auburn University to study Animal Sciences the following year.

Jane decided to move to Atlanta, Georgia, to work with several veterinarians, then came back home to attend the University of South Alabama, where she earned her Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing. She says, “The Navy recruiters came to our nursing classes and told us how important it is to have qualified nurses in our military, and after hearing everything, I couldn’t think of a single reason not to be a part of it, so I joined the Navy.”

Jane went to Officer Indoctrination School in Newport, Rhode Island, where she learned how to march in formation and had to always be in uniform. “We had to obey every command.” She recalls, “They told us when to eat, when to sleep, when to do everything. We got up at 5:00 AM, exercised, ate breakfast, and the rest of the time we were in class. My first Duty Assignment was at the United States Naval Hospital, Cherry Point, which was located at the Marine Corps Air Station in Cherry Point, North Carolina. It was interesting to be with the Marines, because they kept having babies! I was assigned to the Family Medicine Ward, which was a medical surgical unit, and I took care of patients while simultaneously teaching Corpsmen to do what we do, as a second pair of eyes, per se. I also had a daughter at the time named Lizzy.”

Jane was working at night when the war broke out. “Many of my patients’ husbands were deployed when I was working in Labor and Delivery. The husbands would call in from thousands of miles away, and get to experience the birth of their child. I would hold the phone near the mother’s ear so she could hear her husbands’ words of encouragement and joy when their baby was born. It was such an honor for me to be included.”

Jane was then transferred to Guam with her 6-week-old daughter, Lizzy. She says, “I was in the middle of nowhere with my newborn daughter, yet I was blessed with Navy Nurses who wrapped their arms around me and my baby girl. Guam is an isolated island, surrounded by a reef. I worked in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Guam. Everyone worked in unison with each other on the island. The water was shut off several times a week for conservation, because the water came from the ocean and had to be desalinated before we could use it. Everything from gasoline to supplies to food was shipped in. It was very different from living in the United States.”

Jane then PCS’d to San Diego, California, where she worked at the Naval Medical Center in Labor and Delivery before moving onto the Mother-Baby Unit. She is very proud to have implemented and developed major changes, such as Code Pink, which is infant or child abduction. Code Pink alerts staff that an infant or child is missing or abducted from the hospital.

Pediatric units, maternity wards, and NICUs are most vulnerable to this situation. During a Code Pink, nurses and other hospital staff secure all exits to prevent anyone from leaving the building, monitor hallways, stairwells, and other potential escape routes, and report any suspicious activity immediately. In some facilities, all staff may be asked to assist in the search until the child or infant is found or the code is cleared.

She was then selected to go to school to get her Masters Degree at the University of Washington as a Perinatal Nurse Specialist, and the Navy paid for everything, and she still received her salary.

Jane was transferred to Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune in North Carolina and was the Division Officer of the Delivery Unit and later the Department Head for the Maternal Child Unit, including the Nursery. While at Camp Lejeune, Jane helped design and implement the Labor, Delivery, Recovery, and Post Partum (LDRP) Unit. The mother stays in the same room with her newborn, and the nursing staff move if necessary. It helps make the mother and baby’s care more congruent and less disjointed. She then moved to Alexandria, Virginia, where she was stationed at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, a Joint Base, where she was the Maternal Child Department Head. Jane also introduced a Baby Friendly 10-step certification program for mothers breastfeeding their babies in the hospital to ensure staff throughout the hospital don’t inadvertently interfere with breastfeeding. Jane began cross-training nurses, saying, “Hospitals were consistently understaffed, and I knew that the nurses needed to move comfortably between all the units and to understand exactly what was needed in each unit at all times.”

Jane then transferred to the Naval Health Clinic Charleston, South Carolina, where she retired as a Navy Captain. She decided to get her real estate license because she had prior experience in flipping houses and earned her Military Relocation Professional (MRP) Certification. “It was the obvious thing to do. As a Veteran, I had to move many, many times, so I know the situations that can arise, and I want my military families to feel like they’re coming home and that they are in trusted hands with me.”

For more information about “G.I. Jane” French, please visit these important websites:

https://yourcharlestonhomesold.com/

https://www.zillow.com/profile/janefrench0

https://www.yelp.com/biz/jane-french-exp-realty-charleston


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