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Best job in military health? For these men, it’s nursing

Nurse Manny Santiago (right) with retired Marine Corps Sgt. Carlos Evans in October at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Santiago said he “had the privilege of taking care of this young man” after Evans stepped on an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan in May 2010 during his fourth combat deployment. The two men discovered they’re both from the same hometown in Puerto Rico. (Courtesy photo)

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For many nurses, saving lives means risking their own

Air Force then-Capt. Cade Reedy, a critical care nurse, donates blood during a Special Operations Surgical Team deployment to save the life of a local man severely wounded while fighting enemy forces. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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National Nurses Week: Remembering nurses and their contributions to military medicine

The Military Health System annual National Nurses Week wreath-laying ceremony took place at Arlington National Cemetery May 7. Speakers included Air Force Maj. Gen. Dorothy Hogg, U.S. Public Health Service Rear Adm. Carol Romano, and Navy Capt. Deborah Roy. (Courtesy photo by Military Health System Communications)

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Nurses and medical techs, backbone of AF Medicine

U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Dorothy Hogg, Air Force Deputy Surgeon General and chief, Air Force Nurse Corps, delivers keynote remarks at Arlington National Cemetery, Va., during a wreath laying at the Nurses Memorial for National Nurses and Medical Technicians Week, May 7, 2018. (Courtesy photo by Defense Health Agency Communications Division)

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Nurses and medical techs, backbone of AF Medicine

U.S. Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Jesus Antillon and Staff Sgt. Joseph Beard, medical technicians with the 11th Medical Group at Joint Base Andrews, Md., discuss patient care, April 5, 2018. (Defense Health Agency photo by Jamie Chirinos)

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Nurses and medical techs, backbone of AF Medicine

Retired U.S. Air Force Reserve Lt. Col. Ruthann Johns, a registered nurse at Malcom Grow Clinic, Joint Base Andrews, Md. (Defense Health Agency photo by Jamie Chirinos)

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February 2018 marks 75th anniversary of the first formal graduation of U.S. Air Force flight nurses

Members of the U.S. Army Flight Nurse Corps in 1943, displaying the various types of Army Nurse Corps uniforms. From left to right, 2nd Lt. Wilma Vinsant, in regulation blue winter uniform, Army Nurse Corps; 2nd Lt. Edith M. Roe; 2nd Lt. Ethel Guffey; 2nd Lt. Jane Orme, winter flying suit and 2nd Lt. Adela Besse, the gray flying suit with slacks. (Photo courtesy of the National Archives)

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February 2018 marks 75th anniversary of the first formal graduation of U.S. Air Force flight nurses

U.S. Army Air Corps 2nd Lt. Geraldine L. Curtis; 2nd Lt. Geraldine F. Dishroon, and 2nd Lt. Irene McMullen, getting into their winter flying suits for a training flight in 1943. (Photo courtesy of the National Archives)

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February 2018 marks 75th anniversary of the first formal graduation of U.S. Air Force flight nurses

Brig. Gen. David N.W. Grant, Air Surgeon of the Army Air Forces, pins the wings on the blouse of 2nd Lt. Geraldine F. Dishroon, honor graduate of the flight nurse’s school at Bowman Field, Kentucky, during the school’s first formal flight nurse graduation on Feb. 18, 1943. Brig. Gen. Fred S. Borum, Commanding General, 1st Troop Carrier Command, is in the center. (Photo courtesy of the National Archives)

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February 2018 marks 75th anniversary of the first formal graduation of U.S. Air Force flight nurses

A Medical Corps Soldier gets last-minute instructions from the pilot and flight nurse before loading casualties aboard a Douglas C-47 air evacuation plane in France. (Photo courtesy of Air Force Medical Service Historian)

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U.S. Army Nurses from Bataan and Corregidor, freed after three years imprisonment in Santo Tomas Interment Compound

Lt. Col. Helen Hennessey was captured as a prisoner of war in 1942 and sent to the Santo Tomas internment camp in Manila. She was one of the many nurses captured on the island of Corregidor. This is an image of many of those nurses being rescued when Santo Tomas was eventually liberated by American troops in 1945. [12 February 1945]

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