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 ...

A trailblazing navy nurse has been named ‘woman of the year’ for championing the mental health of submariners.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Rear Adm. Rebecca McCormick-Boyle, Navy chief of staff, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and a 1981 graduate of the UB School of Nursing, recently came back to her alma mater to receive ...

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) onboard Naval Support Activity Bethesda (NSAB) celebrated the 106th birthday of the Navy Nurse Corps on May 13 with a cake-cutting ceremony in the ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Former Navy nurse Katherine Orr enjoys her retirement. It was 54 years ago when she first wore a military uniform right out of St. Francis School of Nursing in Poughkeepsie, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee, named for the pioneering Navy nurse and Navy Cross recipient, debuted a new battle flag as it pulled into port in San Diego ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society received its largest-ever donation in May. The gift didn't come from a wealthy benefactor or from the proceeds of the previous year's Army-Navy Game. It was ...