She joined the Navy Nurses Corps on April 28, 1936. Following two tours of the United States, she was assigned to the U.S. Naval Hospital in Guam, and later to the Canacao Naval Hospital, Manila, ...

Children often follow in the footsteps of their parents and Angela Stanley, a retired commander in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps is no exception. She spent two years in Okinawa, Japan during her military ...

Five San Diego women veterans were recently inducted into the Military Women's Memorial database during an Honor Flight trip ...

For 36 years, retired U.S. Navy nurse Ruby Brooks patched up the wounded – first as staff nurse, then a surgical nurse. World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War kept her very busy and very ...

Lt. Brittaney Hughes of NMRTC Guantanamo Bay advances Navy medical care through nursing excellence and service, impacting the ...

BREMERTON, Wash. -- With an eye on enhancing joint operation capability and a hand on improving personal and professional competency, Navy Nurse Corps officers have teamed up with Madigan Army Medical ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Former Navy nurse Katherine Orr enjoys her retirement. It was 54 years ago when she first wore a military uniform right out of St. Francis School of Nursing in Poughkeepsie, ...

Navy Lt. Cmdr. Erika Schilling, a military nurse midwife, recently used her medical skills to pull back a man from the brink of death. BREMERTON, Wash., Jan. 30, 2018 -- Navy midwifes bring new life ...

Then-Director of the Navy Nurse Corps Rear Adm. Alene Duerk, in her office in 1974. Duerk was the first woman in the Navy promoted to flag rank. US Navy Photo The Navy’s first female admiral, Rear Adm ...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (Tribune News Service) — In March of 1945, there was a parade honoring the homecoming of Lt. Margaret “Peggy” Nash, a U.S. Navy nurse who had served in the Philippines, where she was ...

Deliverance: Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, Commander, Seventh Fleet, poses with the liberated nurses on Leyte on 23 February 1945. Lieutenant Nash is in the front row, second from right. Naval ...