Author Archive for Woodrow Aames

Military nurses have served the nation since the beginning of the 20^th Century. Before that time, as early as the Civil War, the armed forces were treated by civilian nurses. The U.S. Army and Navy each had a corps comprised of nurses recruited from the ranks of civilians by 1908, while the Air Force created its nursing corps upon that branch's separation from the Army in 1947. Today, nurses in the military hold ranks and ratings and serve in hospitals […]