The “Sacred Twenty”: The Navy’s First Nurses

Filed under Navy History, U.S. Navy by on May 11, 2012 at 8:00 am {one comment}

By André B. Sobocinski, Navy Medicine Office of the Historian May 13th marks the 104th anniversary of the Navy Nurse Corps. On May 13, 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Naval Appropriations Bill authorizing the establishment of the Nurse Corps as a unique staff corps in the Navy.     Initially, all Nurse Corps candidates were required [...]

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