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Nurses Corps Sees 100th Anniversary
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Military Medicine
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July 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright Association of Military Surgeons of the United States Summer 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Nurses have served in every war since the Civil War, where they mended wounded soldiers on military hospital ship Red Rover. Although nurses were taking care of wounded service members on the battlefront, they weren't distinguished as the Navy Nurse Corps until May 1907 when then-President Theodore Roosevelt signed a bill recognizing them. In 1907, Candidates traveled to Washington, DC from around the country for the opportunity to become part of the Nurse Corps. The "Sacred Twenty" was the moniker given to the group of women who passed all the tests.
In the early days, nurses assigned to duty at the Naval Hospital in Washington, DC didn't have quarters. Instead, they rented a house and had ...
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