The four nurses remained the sole women recipients of the Silver Star until: Sergeant Leigh Ann Hester was awarded the Silver Star in 2005 for gallantry during an insurgent ambush on a convoy in Iraq, three nurses who had served in World War I were awarded the Silver Star posthumously in 2007, and Army Specialist Monica Lin Brown was awarded the Silver Star in March 2008 for heroism in the War in Afghanistan.

At odds with Army doctors, Dix feuded with them over control of medical facilities and the hiring and firing of nurses.

It granted both the Surgeon General ( Joseph K. Barnes ) and the Superintendent of Army Nurses ( Dix ) the power to appoint female nurses.

Through her actions, the Army Nurse Corps was established and nurses were later given the rank of officer.

During the Spanish-American War ( 1898 ) thousands of US soldiers sick with typhoid, malaria, and yellow fever overwhelmed the capabilities of the Army Medical Department, so Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee suggested to the Army Surgeon General that the Daughters of the American Revolution ( DAR ) be appointed to select professionally qualified nurses to serve under contract to the US Army.

Before the war ended, 1, 500 civilian contract nurses were assigned to Army hospitals in the US, Hawaii ( not a state at that time ), Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines, as well as to the hospital ship Relief.

The Army was impressed by the performance of its contract nurses and had Dr. McGee write legislation creating a permanent corps of Army nurses.

) The Army Nurse Corps ( all female until 1955 ) was founded in 1901, and the Navy Nurse Corps ( all female until 1964 ) was founded in 1908, and nurses in both served overseas at military hospitals during the war.

During the course of the war, 21, 480 Army nurses served in military hospitals in the United States and overseas and eighteen African-American Army nurses served stateside caring for German prisoners of war ( POWs ) and African-American soldiers.

However, in 1920 a provision of the Army Reorganization Act granted military nurses the status of officers with " relative rank " from second lieutenant to major ( but not full rights and privileges ).

More than 60, 000 Army nurses served stateside and overseas during World War II ; 67 Army nurses were captured by the Japanese in the Philippines in 1942 and were held as POWs for over two and a half years.

The Army-Navy Nurse Act of 1947 made the Army Nurse Corps and Women's Medical Specialist Corps part of the regular Army and gave permanent commissioned officer status to Army and Navy nurses.

Visual and operable training aids developed by the Medical Illustration Service, were used in support of Army Medical Service mass casualty exercises.

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* ATLAS ( simulation ), a system used to conduct military Command Post Exercises ( CPX ) within the Royal Thai Army

As reported in the Third Edition of Science and Sanity, The U. S. Army in World War II used Korzybski's system to treat battle fatigue in Europe with the supervision of Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, who went on to become the psychiatrist in charge of the Nazi prisoners at Nuremberg.

Although Collins used it as a catharsis for her opposition to the Vietnam War, two years after her rendition, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, senior Scottish regiment of the British Army, recorded an instrumental version featuring a bagpipe soloist accompanied by a pipe and drum band.

This proved highly successful, even without training, and the concept was widely used in the 21st Army Group.

The Norden bombsight was a highly sophisticated optical / mechanical analog computer used by the United States Army Air Force during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War to aid the pilot of a bomber aircraft in dropping bomb s accurately.

Though rarely used by modern conventional military units, abatises are still officially maintained in United States Army and Marine Corps training.

She also used the priory during her short reign, particularly in 1547, where she felt safe from the English Army.

According to Joe R. Reeder, Under Secretary of the Army from 1993 to 1997, Fidel Castro has used body doubles.

" (" The Medieval Dead " would later be used as the film's subtitle for its UK release as Army of Darkness: The Medieval Dead ).

During the Western Allied invasion of Germany in April 1945, the airfield was seized by the United States Third Army, and used by the USAAF 354th Fighter Group which flew P-47 Thunderbolts from the aerodrome ( designated ALG R-82 ) from late April until the German capitulation on 7 May 1945.

The problem is sometimes known as season cracking after it was first discovered in brass cartridge cases used for rifle ammunition during the 1920s in the Indian Army.

Early computers used a variety of 4-bit binary coded decimal ( BCD ) representations and the 6-bit codes for printable graphic patterns common in the U. S. Army ( Fieldata ) and Navy.

Its first modern incidence in biological warfare were when Scandinavian " freedom fighters " supplied by the German General Staff used anthrax with unknown results against the Imperial Russian Army in Finland in 1916.

The movement was so powerful that even the renowned Red Army Choir, which initially used a normal symphonic orchestra, changed its instrumentation, replacing violins, violas, and violoncellos with orchestral balalaikas and domras.

It was never used in any German military field manual, either in the Army or the Air Force.

" Bolo " was used as derogatory expression for Bolsheviks used by British service personnel in the North Russian Expeditionary Force which intervened against the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.

By the mid-1960s, parts of Cambodia's eastern provinces were serving as bases for North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong ( NVA / VC ) forces operating against South Vietnam, and the port of Sihanoukville was being used to supply them.

Chromium oxide was used by the Chinese in the Qin dynasty over 2, 000 years ago to coat weapons such as bronze crossbow bolts and steel swords found at the Terracotta Army.

Carbine model 1793, used by the French Army during the French Revolutionary Wars.

It is still used in this form by the British Territorial Army, and the Royal Canadian Armour Corps of the Canadian Army.

The Cheka was also used against the armed anarchist Black Army of Nestor Makhno in the Ukraine.

In 1914 the company developed cellu-cotton, a cotton substitute used by the United States Army as surgical cotton during World War I.

The Salvation Army served over 100, 000 meals and provided over 100, 000 ponchos, gloves, hard hats, and knee pads to rescue workers.

The opening of the completed National Museum was delayed several years while the fate of a U. S. Army helicopter landing facility ( H-208 ) was decided ( its approach path and landing pads were directly in front of the museum ).

Rice Army Airfield consisted of two intersecting paved 5, 000 foot runways and numerous dispersal pads south of the runways.

He was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army and served in the ski corps, and later was transferred to the sanitary corps, for which he set up a laboratory in Trieste.

In the Army each company typically had two soldiers assigned as sanitary personnel ( usually personnel who had broken the rules ) whose job it was to keep the latrines in good condition.

He had a hand in the amendments of the Public Health and of the Medical Acts ; in the measures relating to notification of infectious disease, to vaccination, to the registration of plumbers ; in the improvement of factory legislation ; in the remedy of legitimate grievances of Army and Navy medical officers ; in the removal of abuses and deficiencies in crowded barrack schools ; in denouncing the sanitary shortcomings of the Indian government, particularly in regard to the prevention of cholera.

* Total casualties of 29th and 30th Army ( Kalinin Front ), 20th and 31st Army ( Western Front ) in August 1942: 57, 968 irrecoverable and 165, 999 sanitary.

Also that year, the commercial agreement with Japan was signed, the law of trial and dismissal of magistrates ; sanitary zones in Asunción, Villarica and Caacupé and was created the regulations for the Army.