Vanessa Larter joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 2002 and served twenty years in the army as a medic. She served two tours to Kandahar, Afghanistan, with the PPCLI battle group in 2006 and 2008. She also took part in multiple domestic operations in Canada. She retired from the CAF as a Physician Assistant. She thoroughly enjoyed her career at home and abroad including several years instructing at the Canadian Forces Medical School. She now resides back home in PEI with her husband and four children.