“I got to travel the world for free,” she told Newsday. 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.

after her father encouraged her to serve as an officer to help pay for school. From there, she continued to excel. While working as a nurse at Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii, she attended ...

Donna Barbisch, a former Vietnam nurse and retired Army officer, remembered talking to a woman who didn't know any American women had been overseas. "She was expressing negative sentiment about ...

On Dec. 20, World War II Army nurse veteran Regina Benson celebrated ... William Benson, a supply officer and company commander. After their service, they married and began a life together ...