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    Link to Army Nurse Corps info

    1) Link with lot's of info; Overview, Benefits, Specialties & Requirements, Careers & Jobs, and ANC Profiles.

    Army Nurse Corps

    2) Access link, then look to left side of screen for link info on how to join ANC.

    HOW DO I JOIN THE ARMY NURSE CORPS?
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    Re: Link to Army Nurse Corps info

    More information you might like to know:

    More information about army nurses
    -Feb. 2, 2005, marks the 104th anniversary of the establishment of the Army Nurse Corps.

    -When the United States entered World War I in 1917, there were only 4,093 nurses on active duty. By November 1918, there were 21,460 Army nurses, with 10,000 serving overseas.

    -When the United States entered World War II, fewer than 7,000 nurses were on active duty. By 1945, more than 57,000 Army Nurses were assigned to hospital ships and trains, flying ambulances, field hospitals, evacuation stations, and general hospitals at home and overseas.

    -Army nurses cared for combat troops during the landing on Inchon; the advance across the 38th parallel into North Korea; the amphibious landing on the east coast of Korea; the drive toward the Yalu River; and the retreat to the 38th parallel. Throughout the Korean War, 540 Army nurses served on the embattled peninsula.

    -In Vietnam, of the nearly 5,000 Army nurses who served in 44 hospitals, eight women made the ultimate sacrifice for their nation.

    -During Operation Desert Storm, approximately 2,200 nurses served in 44 hospitals.

    -In 1983, they supported combat troops in Grenada; in 1989 in Panama; and in 1991 in the Middle East. Since December 1995, Army nurses have been deployed with medical units in support of NATO alliance troops in Haiti, Bosnia, Herzegovina and Kosovo. Nurses have continued to serve proudly during relief efforts following natural disasters such as Hurricane Mitch in 1998.

    -More than 2,000 nurses have served in the war on terrorism.
    Source: Army Nurse Corps Historical Collection

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    Re: Link to Army Nurse Corps info

    Wow, Cat just like female nurse to leave out some very important info;

    August 9, 1955, Public Law 294, 84th Congress introduced by Mrs Frances P. Bolton (Representative from Ohio) & signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized commission for male nurses in the US Army Reserve Nutse Corps.

    September 30, 1966, Public Law 89609, 89th Congress authorized commission in Regular Army Nurse Corps for male nurses.

    HOOAH!

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    I can no longer be an advocate/recruiter for those interested in the Army Nurse Corps.

    I've had three left shoulder surgeries (RTC, etc.). However, MRI last month indicates full thickness tear (&retracted) of supraspinatous, partial thickness tear of infraspinatous, bicep dislocated, labral tear, and osephytes from humeral head floating in the shoulder joint. Used my chain-of-command and set meeting with Chief of Nursing Services, SAMMC, aka BAMC, with COL Smith. My goal was to leave the ICU setting, d/t lifting , turning, pulling of patient's. I'd hope for transfer to a clinical setting that involved little to know lifting of patients. COL Smith would not consider granting a reassignment. In fact, she told me I was unfit to be a Soldier & should resign my commission. Needless to say I was shocked & dumbfounded.

    DO NOT LET an ORTHO Surgeon cut on you. All major military medical centers are teaching hospitals. Not one of my previous RTC repairs involved an Ortho Sports Med Specialist. RTC repair requires a specialist, rather than a General Ortho Surgeon. My left arm is practically useless & worse from when I returned from Iraq.

    Bitter towards the AMEDD? YES !!!
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    Thank you, SoldierNurse.

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    Updates to follow.

    BTW, have no idea which area of civilian nursing to apply. My first thought is PACU, which I do have experience.
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