Navy nurse Alice Darrow came to Pearl Harbor as a VIP guest for the anniversary commemorations of Imperial Japan’s Dec. 7, ...

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 service woman who is the sole dedicated mental health nurse assigned to the Submarine Service has been named "Woman of the ...

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 Moncks Corner native is celebrating nearly three decades of service in the military as she moves into retirement. Navy Capt. Kimberly Driggers-Taylor, daughter of Angela and Wilson Russell of Moncks ...

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 ...

A Navy lieutenant nurse who refused to force-feed protesting prisoners at Guantanamo in the summer of 2014 has been restored to full duty and is serving at a Navy medical facility in New England, his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Five Navy Nurse Corps officers assigned to Navy Medicine Training Support Center (NMTSC) and Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command (NMETLC) recently visited the San Antonio Brookdale ...