Administrative History The U.S. Army Nurse Corps (ANC) was established in 1901 as a permanent corps within the U.S. Army Medical Department. Because of the efforts of Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee and ...

FORT BENNING, GA – The Army Nurse Corps (ANC) celebrates its 120th anniversary on February 2. The theme for 2021 is “Diverse in Talent, United in Mission.” Capt. Ben Stone, a Nurse Methods ...

Troops have until Oct. 1, 2027, to purchase the AGSU, after which the ... undershirt designed for nursing. Service officials said in November that the Army Uniform Board will consider developing ...

Although women nurses cared for soldiers as early as the American Revolution, the official Army Nurse Corps was not formed until 1901, in the wake of the Spanish-American War. This 1965 film from ...

Beulah “Peggy” Greenwalt Walcher, who as a U.S. Army nurse in World War II was one of 82 women held as a prisoner of war by Japanese forces on Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines ...

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 ...

Brig. Gen. Hazel Winifred Johnson-Brown was a nurse and educator who served with the U.S. Army from 1955 to 1983. In 1979, she became the first black female general in the Army and the first black ...

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 ...

PHOENIX — Patricia Little-Upah comes from a military family. “My mother was an Army nurse in New Guinea in WWII, my dad served in WWII in the Navy, both my brothers served in the Army ...

After graduating from Sacred Heart Hospital School of Nursing in Allentown, Pa., in 1944, she decided to join the U.S. Army. "My mother wasn't too happy about the idea," she recalled, "but my ...