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Pfc. Bailey Senften, an Animal Care Specialist, led a workshop titled “Paws & Procedures: Exploring Army Veterinary Care with ...
During WWII, Briard enlisted to work as a first lieutenant Army Nurse in Hawaii. “Oh, I felt it was very important,” Briard said. “They were needed.” Briard started out as a farm girl from ...
She was 104. Her great-niece Gilda Leftenant confirmed the death, in a nursing facility. Mrs. Leftenant-Colon joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in February 1948, several months before President ...
Well done, Mrs. Leftenant-Colon! The first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps following its desegregation after World War II, Nancy Leftenant-Colon, passed away at 104, VPM reported.
On Dec. 20, World War II Army nurse veteran Regina Benson celebrated her 105th birthday, according to a Friends of the National World War II Memorial press release. Born on Dec. 20, 1919 in ...
Many, like Wells, were recruited from nursing school. Those who completed the Army's student nurse program and passed state nursing exams were commissioned as Second Lieutenants in the Army Nurse ...
On Sept. 14, 2024, the Nurse Honor Guard had the privilege of honoring a remarkable woman, Rosetta Pals, a WWII Army nurse who passed away at the age of 100. The ceremony, held at Espiritu Santo ...
From there, she continued to excel. While working as a nurse at Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii, she attended the Army’s Air Assault and Jungle Schools, and at the end of the latter she ...
WATE’s Don Dare spoke with an army nurse who started her career a little later in life. Lee Ann Adams began her 24-year career in the US Army in an unusual manner. When commissioned to First ...
Gen. Anna M. Hays, chief of the Army Nurse Corps, said Tuesday that it was wrong to compare her job to that of a division commander because she functions purely in a staff position despite the ...