May saw the death of a retired U.S. Supreme Court justice who came the high court as a Republican but became a favorite among ...

“More than 181,000 women serve in the Army today, from enlisted personnel to general officers,” said ... From the 21,000 women who served in the Army Nurse Corps during WWI, to the 150,000 ...

Brigadier General Harriett Tubman ... As a former Captain in the Army Nurse Corps who served in Vietnam in 1968 and 1969, working in surgical and burn units, she had first-hand knowledge of ...

and next year’s 125th Anniversary of the Nurse Corps. Lt. Gen. Mary K. Izaguirre, U.S. Army Surgeon General and Commanding General, U.S. Army Medical Command, delivered the keynote address.

Two things were clear for retired Maj. Nancy Leftenant-Colon as a girl — she wanted to offer comfort as a nurse, and she wanted to proudly serve her country — despite obstacles that made both ...

broke barriers as the first Black woman to become a general in the U.S. Army and the first Black chief of the Army Nurse Corps. Similarly, well-known Omega Psi Phi Fraternity member and Marine ...

As the judge advocate general for the U.S. Army for the past three years, Risch led and managed the JAG Corps, composed of nearly 10,000 of lawyers, paralegals and support staff, as well as ...

Irene Hosking was just 24 years old when she enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps on May 15 ... going forward and the importance of nursing in general,” Rogers said. “We need nurses out there ...

Clara Adams-Ender was an officer in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps from 1961-1993, earning the rank of brigadier general in 1987, according to the Women Veterans Historical Project at the University of ...

She became a staff nurse at the General Hospital in Elizabeth, N.J. Kraus enlisted in the Women’s Army Corps on July 1, 1942, in Elizabeth, N.J., as a second lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps.

CAMP ZAMA, Japan — The first woman general in the 196-year history of the U.S. Army, Brig. Gen. Anna M. Hays, chief of the Army Nurse Corps, said Tuesday that it was wrong to compare her job to ...

Meet Stella Zanowick Chalanick, first lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1943 to 1946. Stella served as a general duty nurse in World War II at Buckingham Army Airfield in Fort Myers ...