United States Navy Nurse Corps

United States Navy Nurse Corps
Seal of the United States Navy Nurse Corps[1]
Founded1908; 116 years ago (1908)
Country United States of America
Branch United States Navy
Group photograph of the first twenty Navy nurses, appointed in 1908

The United States Navy Nurse Corps was officially established by Congress in 1908; however, unofficially, women had been working as nurses aboard Navy ships and in Navy hospitals for nearly 100 years. The Corps was all-female until 1965.[2]

  1. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). www.med.navy.mil. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 February 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ Laurie L. Weinstein (1 March 1999). Gender Camouflage: Women and the U.S. Military. NYU Press. pp. 23–. ISBN 978-0-8147-1907-7.