Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Louise Lomax joined the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) as a 2nd Lieutenant in March 1943 with the help of the National ...

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FORT JOHNSON, La. — 1st Lt. Crystal Absher knows what it means to serve those who serve. After years working as a civilian nurse and building her career while supporting her Family through military ...

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Almost as important as the cap was the nursing school pin. In the 19th century, pins were a tradition of the Nightingale School of Nursing at St Thomas's Hospital in London, where students were ...

As a young woman, Nancy Leftenant-Colon was walking through a neighborhood in the South when a white passerby spit in her face. That Leftenant-Colon was in a U.S. Army uniform was irrelevant. That she ...