I tend to physical and psychological wounds of our warriors and support the health, safety, and welfare of every retired Veteran.

It is a privilege to care for each of these individuals and I will always strive to be attentive and respectful of their needs and honor their uniquely divine human spirit.

We embrace the diversity of our team and implicitly understand that we must maintain a unified, authentically positive culture and support each other's physical, social, and environmental well-being.

We are fundamentally committed to providing exceptional care to past, present, and future generations who bravely defend and protect our Nation.

[10] Although the women who tended the sick and wounded during the Revolutionary War were not nurses as they are known in the modern sense, they blazed the trail for later generations.

The Army Medical Department was re-established by Congress under the direction of a Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph Lovell.

[9] Some of the nurses who worked in the Union hospitals were not on the Army payroll, but were sponsored by the United States Sanitary Commission or by volunteer agencies.

Their work was largely limited to preparing diets, supervising the distribution of supplies furnished by volunteer groups, and housekeeping details.

[13] Professionalization was a dominant theme during the Progressive Era, because it valued expertise and hierarchy over ad-hoc volunteering in the name of civic duty.

Eligibility at this time included being female, white, unmarried, a volunteer, and a graduate from a civilian nursing school.

After 12 years at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C., she was promoted to captain and became the Assistant Superintendent of Nurses.

[17] Colonel Flikke's small headquarters in 1942, though it contained only 4 officers and 25 civilians, supervised the vast wartime expansion of nurses, in cooperation with the Red Cross.

These nurses were commissioned for a term that lasted the duration of the war plus six months, but they were discharged if they married or became pregnant.

Due to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, the United States entered the Pacific part of World War II.

[22] African American nurses also served in China, Australia, New Guinea, the Philippines, England and the US where they treated prisoners of war.

[22] On 26 February 1944 Congress passed a bill that granted Army and Navy Nurses actual military rank, approved for the duration of the war plus 6 months.

Fearing a massive wave of combat casualties once Japan was invaded in late 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called on Congress early in 1945 for permission to draft nurses.

However, with the rapid collapse of Germany early in 1945, and the limitation of the war in the Pacific to a few islands, the draft was not needed and was never enacted.

Nurses were deeply involved with post-operative recovery procedures, air evacuation, and new techniques in psychiatry and anesthesia.

Upon Flikke's retirement in 1943, she was succeeded by Florence A. Blanchfield, who successfully promoted new laws in 1947, that established the Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurse Corps on a permanent basis, giving the nurses regular commissions on exactly the same terms as male officers.

He discovered their quarters were substandard, that nurses rotated overseas more often than other soldiers and they were forced to leave the military at age fifty-five.

1LT Sharon Lane was the only nurse to die by enemy fire during the Vietnam War when on 8 June 1969, she was mortally wounded when a rocket hit her facility, the 312th Evacuation Hospital.

[29] On at least one occasion, the US Army hospital at Cam Ranh Bay was assaulted and severely damaged, with a loss of both patient and staff life.

Army Nurses are deployed all over the world, participating in humanitarian missions, and supporting the Global War on Terror.

The Nurse Corps has a distinctive insignia, a gold color metal caduceus, bearing an 'N' in black enamel.

Source:[32][9] This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Army.