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 ...

Today marks the 118th birthday of the Navy Nurse Corps, created by President Theodore Roosevelt and first staffed by a group ...

"A month later, Peggy Nash began Navy nurse training at the Norfolk Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia — she was 25 years old. After completing six months of on-the-job training, she qualified as ...

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 ...

When Alene B. Duerk enlisted in the Navy Nurse Corps, leaving her nursing job at a Toledo, Ohio, department store at the height of World War II, she envisioned a few months' service to her country ...

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 ...

A retired Navy nurse with no family left a huge sum to the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society. The Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society received its largest-ever donation in May. The gift didn't come from a ...

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 ...

A Navy doctor holds a feeding tube used to deliver a can of Ensure up the nose, down the back of the throat and into the stomach of a prison camp hunger striker on June 26, 2013 at the U.S. Navy base ...

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 ...