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Military nursing history

U.S. Air Force nurses, from left, are Lt. Lydia Masserine, Lt. Stella Makar, Lt. Dorothy Wood, Lt. Hope Toone, Lt. j.g. Mae Hanson, and Ensign Winnifred Jennings in the South Pacific in the Spring of 1945. The Defense Health Agency is celebrating National Nurses Week 2026, May 6-12, and it’s almost 250 years of nursing legacy. Built upon a rich history of supporting warfighter medical readiness, military nurses spearhead force health protection, combat care, and the ability of service members to stay healthy and ready for the mission. (Courtesy photo)
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Military nursing history

Capt. Sara Hall and Ensign Gizella Papp, U.S. military nurses, tend to several injured service members on a medical evacuation flight aboard a C-97 transport plane during the Korean War, July 28, 1950. Hall was in the U.S. Air Force while Papp served in the U.S. Navy. The Defense Health Agency is celebrating National Nurses Week 2026, May 6-12, and it’s almost 250 years of nursing legacy. Built upon a rich history of supporting warfighter medical readiness, military nurses spearhead force health protection, combat care, and the ability of service members to stay healthy and ready for the mission. (Courtesy photo)
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Military nursing history

A U.S. Army nurse and patients during World War II in the South Pacific. The Defense Health Agency is celebrating National Nurses Week 2026, May 6-12, and it’s almost 250 years of nursing legacy. Built upon a rich history of supporting warfighter medical readiness, military nurses spearhead force health protection, combat care, and the ability of service members to stay healthy and ready for the mission. (Courtesy photo)
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Military nursing history

The “Sacred Twenty,” a group photograph of the first 20 U.S. Navy nurses, pose after appointed in 1908. The Defense Health Agency is celebrating National Nurses Week 2026, May 6-12, and it’s almost 250 years of nursing legacy. Built upon a rich history of supporting warfighter medical readiness, military nurses spearhead force health protection, combat care, and the ability of service members to stay healthy and ready for the mission. (Courtesy photo)
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Vietnam-era flight nurse champions veteran health advocacy

Military Women’s Memorial President Phyllis Wilson speaks with retired U.S. Air Force Maj. (Dr.) Linda Spoonster Schwartz during the Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Women Veterans Trailblazers ceremony at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., Sept. 25, 2025. (U.S. Air Force photo by Josh Mahler)
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Vietnam-era flight nurse champions veteran health advocacy

Center for Women Veterans Executive Director Jacquelyn Hayes-Byrd, left, presents retired U.S. Air Force Maj. (Dr.) Linda Spoonster Schwartz with a memento during the Department of Veterans Affairs CWV Trailblazers ceremony at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., Sept. 25, 2025. (U.S. Air Force photo by Josh Mahler)
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Vietnam-era flight nurse champions veteran health advocacy

Retired U.S. Air Force Maj. (Dr.) Linda Spoonster Schwartz smiles with then-Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama at the White House on Memorial Day, before going to Arlington National Cemetery to place a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, May 30, 2016. (Photo courtesy of Yale School of Nursing)
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Vietnam-era flight nurse champions veteran health advocacy

U.S. Air Force Maj. (Dr.) Linda Spoonster Schwartz takes her oath upon joining the service at a recruitment center in Idaho, 1967. (Photo courtesy of Connecticut Veterans Affairs)
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Vietnam-era flight nurse champions veteran health advocacy

Retired U.S. Air Force Maj. (Dr.) Linda Spoonster Schwartz attends the Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Women Veterans Trailblazers ceremony at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., Sept. 25, 2025. A flight nurse by trade, Schwartz served during the Vietnam War and as a reservist before medically retiring in 1986. (U.S. Air Force photo by Josh Mahler)
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U.S. Army Maj. Gen. David Norvell Walker Grant (1891-1964), known as the “grandfather” of the present-day Air Force Medical Service, spearheaded aeromedical research and created the Air Evacuation Service that safely transported over a million casualties during wartime. David Grant USAF Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base, California, is named after Grant, and his legacy of excellence continues with award-winning care. (Photo by Smithsonian Institution Archives)
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AFMS honors Vietnam War Veterans Day, advancements in AE from the battlefields of Vietnam

Wounded service members lie in a hospital ward at Cam Ranh Air Base, Vietnam. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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AFMS honors Vietnam War Veterans Day, advancements in AE from the battlefields of Vietnam

Members of an Air Force C-123 Provider aircrew and an Air Force medical personal carry a wounded fellow Airman to a hospital in Saigon, Vietnam, Feb. 10, 1966. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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412th MDG Airman completes 26.2-mile Bataan Memorial Death March in honor of grandfather

Staff Sgt. Wendy Updegrave, Flight and Operational Medicine Clinic noncommissioned officer-in-charge, 412th Operational Medical Readiness Squadron, carried a photo of her grandfather, Samuel Kutalek, during the Bataan Memorial Death March at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, March. 16. In 1942, then Army Pfc. Kutalek survived the Bataan Death March in the Philippines. (Photo courtesy of Staff Sgt. Wendy Updegrave)
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U.S. Army Maj. (Dr.) Jonathan Letterman

Known as the “Father of Modern Battlefield Medicine,” Maj. Jonathan Letterman’s work during the Civil War saved thousands of soldiers from dying horrible deaths on the battlefield.
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Maj. Jonathan Letterman

Known as the “Father of Modern Battlefield Medicine,” Maj. Jonathan Letterman’s work during the Civil War saved thousands of soldiers from dying horrible deaths on the battlefield.
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A look back at the Air Force’s evolving physical fitness standards

Historical image of a service member using exercise equipment to maintain physical fitness standards. (Courtesy photo)
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Bannister family photo

Pictured is Capt. Stephen A. Rusch holding his daughter, Sharon Rusch, now Maj. Gen. Sharon Bannister, director of medical operations in the Office of the Surgeon General, Arlington, Va. Rusch, a P4E Phantom pilot during the Vietnam War, was shot down in southern Laos and considered missing in action. His remains were identified in 2007, and was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery, Va. (Courtesy photo)
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A look back at the AFMS response in Jonestown, Guyana

Two HC-130Ns and 38 Reserve aircrew members, medics, and aerial porters evacuated survivors and victims from Georgetown, Guyana after violence broke out at the People's Temple Agricultural Mission in Jonestown in 1978. (Courtesy photo)
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A look back at the attack on the USS Cole

Following arrival at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, injured USS Cole Sailors are carried off an aircraft, Oct. 14, 2000. (Courtesy photo)
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A look back at the attack on the USS Cole

Injured USS Cole Sailors are carried aboard a C-9 Nightingale aircraft of the 86th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron at Aden, Yemen, Oct. 13, 2000. The Sailors were evacuated to Germany for medical treatment. (Courtesy photo)
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