As I cared for this young marine, I realized that I was not just a nurse, but a caregiver for real-life American heroes.” ...

Registered nursing positions (at 50,000 strong) and medical officers (holding more than 22,000 jobs) are two of the ... of health-care workers while the Army, Navy and Air Force hire civilian ...

Her commission as an officer in the Army Nurse Corps made international news. “It was just part of the job,” she told Newsday in 1978. “But then there were articles in The New York Times ...

The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was 104. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this ...