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The Army Nurse Corps stopped being all-female in 1955; [27] that year Edward L.T. Lyon was the first man to receive a commission in the Army Nurse Corps. [28] During the Vietnam War many Army nurses would see deployment to South East Asia. Army nurses would staff all major Army hospitals in the theater, including Cam Ranh Bay, Da Nang, and ...
In January 1945 she was allowed to join the United States Army Nurse Corps as a Second Lieutenant reservist and was initially assigned to Lowell Hospital in Massachusetts. In 1946 she was promoted and assigned to 332nd Station Medical Group in Ohio on Lockbourne Army Air Base. One notable incident was when the local hospital would not treat a ...
Pages in category "United States Army Nurse Corps officers" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
The Army Nurse Corps originated in 1901, the Dental Corps began in 1911, the Veterinary Corps in 1916, the Medical Service Corps emerged in 1917 (during WW I the Sanitary Corps was created as a temporary organization to relieve U.S. Army physicians from a variety of duties), [3] and the Army Medical Specialist Corps came into existence in 1947.
Florence A. Blanchfield (1884–1971), superintendent of the United States Army Nurse Corps; Cecilia Blomqvist (1845–1890), Finnish deaconess; Kath Bonnin (1911 – 1985) was an Australian army nurse during WW2 [1] Angela Boškin (1885–1977), first professionally trained Slovenian nurse and social worker in Yugoslavia
United States Army Nurse Corps officers (54 P) United States Navy Nurse Corps officers (26 P) Pages in category "American military nurses"
The Army is the only branch of service to begin both officer and enlisted service numbers at No. 1. Marine Corps officer numbers also begin at No. 1 but Marine Corps enlisted numbers start much later at #20,001. There is also no service No. 1 in the Navy, Coast Guard, or Air Force although the earliest recorded Air Force officer number was No. 4.
The United States (U.S.) Cadet Nurse Corps (CNC) for women was authorized by the U.S. Congress on 15 June 1943 and signed into law by president Franklin D. Roosevelt on 1 July. The purpose of the law was to alleviate the nursing shortage that existed before and during World War II .