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America's Women Veterans: Military Service History and VA Benefit
America’s Women Veterans Military Service History and VA Benefit Utilization Statistics Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics 1 November 23, 2011 America’s Women Veterans: Military Service History and VA Benefit Utilization Statistics Prepared by: National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics Contributors: Maribel Aponte Syreeta Cherry George Fitzelle Kelly Ann Holder Baboyma Kagniniwa Sidra Montgomery Angus St. Hilaire Eddie Thomas Acknowledgements: The following individuals provided valuable technical assistance and insight for this report. Irene Trowell-Harris, RN, Ed.D., Director, Center for Women Veterans Betty Moseley Brown, Ed.D., Associate Director, Center for Women Veterans Patricia M. Hayes, Ph.D., Chief Consultant, Women Veterans Health Strategic Health Care Group Stacy Garrett-Ray, MD, MPH, MBA, Deputy Director, Comprehensive Women’s Health, Women Veterans Health Strategic Health Care Group, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Uni- versity of Maryland School of Medicine Susan Frayne, MD, MPH, Center for Health Care Evaluation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System , Director, VA Wom- en’s Health Evaluation Initiative, Associate Professor of Medicine, Stanford University Sarah Friedman, MSPH, Project Manager, Women’s Health Evaluation Initiative, VA Palo Alto Health Care System Nicole Hampton, Management and Program Analyst, Veterans Health Administration Support Service Center Donna Washington, MD, MPH, Attending Physician, Greater Los Angeles Health Care System Salminio Garner, Management/Program Analyst, Education Service, Strategy and Legislative Development, Veter- ans Benefits Administration Dorothy Glasgow, Management Analyst, Reports and Information Service, National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics. For women Veterans everywhere. -
From RANCA to ANCA: Thirty Years of Camaraderie and Service
From RANCA to ANCA Thirty Years of Camaraderie and Service The History of the Army Nurse Corps Association: Bringing Army Nurses Together to Preserve the Past, Focus on the Present, and Build the Future From RANCA to ANCA Thirty Years of Camaraderie and Service The History of the Army Nurse Corps Association: Bringing Army Nurses Together to Preserve the Past, Focus on the Present, and Build the Future By Mary T. Sarnecky, DNSc, RN, FNP Colonel, U.S. Army (Retired) Table of Contents Foreword. ..i Genesis. .1 Early.Days. .1 The.Army.Nurse.Corps.Foundation. .3 The.Founding.of.RANCA . .6 The.First.Biennial.Conventions. .7 Initial.Organizational.Activities . 11 . ......Community.Hospital. 13 The Colonel Florence A. Blanchfield Army More.Progress. 14 Social.Endeavors. 17 The.Biennial.Conventions.Continue. 18 Supporting.Collegiate.Education,.Research,.. ......and.Scholarship . 23 Changes.in.The.Connection . 29 More.Biennial.Conventions . 30 Ways.and.Means. 35 Activism.and.Vitality. 38 Finale . 42 Foreword I.am.delighted.to.present.the.history.of.the.Army.Nurse.Corps. Association. (ANCA). as. written. by. Colonel. (Ret .). Mary. Sarnecky,. DNSc,.RN,.FNP ..We.are.very.fortunate.to.procure.the.services.of.the. Army.Nurse.Corps’.most.preeminent.historian.to.write.this.mono- graph,.since.her.perspective.is.invaluable.to.provide.the.discussion. of.the.major.trends.and.processes.of.the.organization ..This.work. documents.the.33-year.story.of.this.organization.from.its.inception. to. current. times .. The. lessons. of. Army. Nurse. Corps. Association’s. history.are.rooted.in.the.uniqueness.of.the.members’.ongoing.com- mitment.to.their.military.profession . -
Summer 2008 Gen
Volume LIX No. 2 Summer 2008 Gen. Dunwoody Selected for Fourth Star N JUNE 23, 2008 SEC- grees. Her most recent position, be- The nomination and confirmation of RETARY OF DEFENSE fore her appointment as the AMC Gen. Dunwoody‘s appointment are ROBERT GATES AN- deputy commander, was as the Army testimony to her exceptional per- O NOUNCED that Presi- deputy chief of staff, G-4. She will formance of duty and to the expecta- dent Bush had nominated Lt. Gen. replace Gen. Benjamin Griffin, who tions of her potential for even greater Ann E. Dunwoody for appointment has commanded AMC since late service. The fact that she had the to the grade of general and assign- 2004. A change of command date opportunity for selection illustrates ment as commander, Army Materiel was not available at press time. dramatic changes in the position of Command. This historic ap- women in the U.S. armed forces. pointment was confirmed by the While women‘s Army service can be Senate on July 23rd. traced from the Revolutionary War, when General Washington com- Gen. Dunwoody, 55, was born at plained about the shortage of nurses, Fort Belvoir, Va. and grew up on it is only in the current conflicts in Army posts around the world. Afghanistan and Iraq that women Her family has a long tradition have been involved active combat. of military service going back to colonial times. Her father, re- Until 1967 women in the military tired Brig. Gen. Harold Dun- could aspire no higher than colonel woody (USMA class of 1944), is a (or Navy captain), and then only one veteran of World War II, Korea woman at a time could serve in that and Vietnam. -
“Serve Yourself and Your Country”: the Wartime and Homecoming Experiences of American Female Military Nurses Who Served in the Vietnam War
“SERVE YOURSELF AND YOUR COUNTRY”: THE WARTIME AND HOMECOMING EXPERIENCES OF AMERICAN FEMALE MILITARY NURSES WHO SERVED IN THE VIETNAM WAR “SERVE YOURSELF AND YOUR COUNTRY”: THE WARTIME AND HOMECOMING EXPERIENCES OF AMERICAN FEMALE MILITARY NURSES WHO SERVED IN THE VIETNAM WAR By NATASHA MOULTON, B.A., M.A. A Thesis Submitted to the School of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy McMaster University © Copyright by Natasha Moulton, September 2012 McMaster University DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (2012) Hamilton, Ontario (History) TITLE: “Serve Yourself and Your Country”: The Wartime and Homecoming Experiences of American Female Military Nurses Who Served in the Vietnam War AUTHOR: Natasha Moulton, B.A. (University of Waterloo), M.A. (University of Waterloo) SUPERVISOR: Professor S. Streeter NUMBER OF PAGES: ix, 298. ii Abstract Between 1964 and 1975, approximately 7,500 to 11,000 American military women served in the Vietnam War. They served in many roles – they worked as air traffic controllers, dieticians, physiotherapists, clerks, and cryptographers – but the bulk of American women who went to Vietnam served as military nurses with the Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurse Corps. This dissertation explores the wartime and homecoming experiences of female nurse veterans whose Vietnam experiences have been largely ignored or minimized by historical accounts of the war. By refashioning the narrative of the war to include women, this study challenges cultural constructions of war as an exclusively male sphere, and in doing so offers a more sophisticated understanding of both men’s and women’s Vietnam service. In Vietnam, American women risked their lives for their country. -
Protecting the Mission
© COPYRIGHT by Joshua S. Jones 2013 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Dedicated to my family. PROTECTING THE MISSION: THE CASE OF THE U.S. ARMY BY Joshua S. Jones ABSTRACT In the literature of organizational change, scholars generally agree that organizations resist change, a phenomenon usually described as organizational inertia. Most of this literature, however, ignores the question of how such resistance to change is manifest. I seek to fill this gap by explaining the tactics that organizations use to resist change. Most of the literature on organizational change also treats resistance as a byproduct of organizational nature. In contrast, I start from the presumption that resistance can be an intentional act and not solely a passive characteristic or byproduct of organizations. In seeking to understand resistance as an intentional act, I explore the following questions: How does an organization resist the external and internal forces for change that act upon it? Are there similarities and differences to this resistance depending on whether the force is internal or external? Are organizations more or less successful in resisting internal or external forces for change? Over time, do organizations become more skilled at resisting? To answer these questions, I use the case study approach to look at the U.S. Army and its response to challenges to its sense of mission, something the literature predicts the Army should resist. More specifically, I test these hypotheses: 1) organizations employ different types of tactics of resistance depending on whether the force for change is internal or external; 2) organizations are more successful at resisting internal than external forces for change; and 3) organizations become more effective at resisting over time. -
Women Warriors
Bowdoin College Professor Potholm Government 1028 Women at War: The Daughters of Mars Fall, 2019 20 year old Soviet sniper Roza Shanina, credited with 54 kills of German soldiers during World War II Department of Government and Legal Studies 9800 College Station • Brunswick • Maine 04011-8498 • Tel 207.725.3295 • Fax 207.725.3168 2 The Daughters of Mars: Women Warriors Any study of women at war through the ages must immediately start with the cogent judgment of Russian General Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov of the 62nd Soviet Army who, after the desperate struggle for Stalingrad during World War II, stated categorically, “Women soldiers proved themselves to be just as heroic in the days of fighting as men.” Regardless of how limited the participation of women in and leading armies has been throughout the course of human history, there is seemingly no a priori reason why they cannot be soldiers and warriors – and good ones at that – regardless of their sex. Myriads of women have already proven this, starting in pre- classical times and continuing to the present. There are – and have always been – many cultural, physical, military, and sexual arguments used by and in many different societies to oppose the participation of women in war and especially in combat. Many of these may have been good reasons in particular cultures but, on balance, none seem sufficient to refute the fact that women have been and can continue to be successful in battle. We will be examining many throughout much of the temporal and geographic range of war. At the end of the day, if we were looking at women in war strictly in terms of the Template of Mars, it would be difficult to argue with the notion of Dominique Lozzi that “Mars does not look at war through a male-centered lens, and therefore, neither should we.” From warrior queens to admirals and generals to individual soldiers, women have been in combat as active participants across vast reaches of time, space and society. -
Cna History Book E.Pdf
Canadian Nurses Association Written and compiled by On the afternoon of October 12, 1908, Mary Agnes Snively was talking with a colleague Jayne Elliott,PhD about the difficulty of the process of giving AMS Nursing)JTUPSZ3FTFBSDI6OJU life to a new national organization. She University of Ottawa SFUJSFE encouraged her friend, saying, “Do not forget that we are making history.” The Christopher Rutty, PhD organization we now know as the Canadian Health Heritage Research Services Nurses Association was born that day. Michael Villeneuve, RN MSc One hundred years later, CNA took the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing opportunity to talk with colleagues and University of Toronto nurses across the country on October 12, 2008, about the challenges we still face, and CNA’s direction going forward. But rather than gathering face-to-face with We are tremendously grateful for the financial a handful of colleagues, we connected support of Associated Medical Services, Inc., and electronically with thousands of nurses the Associated Medical Services Nursing History across the country on that historic day; it Research Unit at the University of Ottawa. We was our first national podcast. CNA was would like to especially thank Jayne Elliott, the once again “making history.” unit’s research facilitator and administrator, who oversaw the project and did a great deal of the And now we make history again. This book writing, along with her colleague, Meryn Stuart, Ph.D., recently retired as associate professor reflects the culmination of years of work in the school of nursing and director of the that first started in 2004. -
Historic Camp Claiborne Louisiana
United States Department of Agriculture REMEMBERING Historic Camp Claiborne, Louisiana THE SACRIFICE James P. Barnett Douglas J. Rhodes Lisa W. Lewis The Authors James P. Barnett, Emeritus Scientist, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Pineville, LA 71360. Douglas J. Rhodes, Deputy District Ranger, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Kisatchie National Forest, Boyce, LA 71409. Lisa W. Lewis, District Ranger, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Kisatchie National Forest, Boyce, LA 71409. Photo credits Most of the photographs were taken by military photographers and are in the public domain. Additional credits are listed on page 110. Front Cover: 34th Infantry Division Review at Camp Claiborne, LA, July 2, 1941. Back Cover: Photo collage of pictures from Camp Claiborne from 1941 to 1946. Forest Service Research & Development Southern Research Station General Technical Report SRS-210 August 2015 Southern Research Station 200 W.T. Weaver Blvd. Asheville, NC 28804 www.srs.fs.usda.gov REMEMBERING Historic Camp Claiborne, Louisiana THE SACRIFICE James P. Barnett Douglas J. Rhodes Lisa W. Lewis Past and present welcome signs to historic Camp Claiborne. The current Camp Claiborne welcome sign is located at the intersection of US-165 and LA-112, a few miles north of Forest Hill, LA, on the Calcasieu Ranger District of the Kisatchie National Forest. Contents Vii Preface 71 Life at Camp Claiborne 1 the Louisiana Maneuvers: 85 Leaders Who Established Their Louisiana’s role in the buildup for war Credentials at Camp Claiborne 86 General George C. Marshall 11 Construction of Camp Claiborne 88 General Omar N. -
POST-PRESIDENTIAL PAPERS, 1961-69 1967 PRINCIPAL FILE Series
EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D.: POST-PRESIDENTIAL PAPERS, 1961-69 1967 PRINCIPAL FILE Series Description This series constitutes the main office file of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Gettysburg Office. It is divided into two subseries. The first is a forty-five box subject file arranged by categories, such as appointments, foreign affairs, gifts, invitations, messages, public relations, publications, speeches, servicemen, and trips. The second subseries is a twelve-box alphabetical file arranged by the name of the individual or organization corresponding with Eisenhower. Documentation in this series includes correspondence, memoranda, transcripts of interviews, drafts of books and articles, statements, messages, schedules, and reports. Eisenhower’s small office staff was inundated with over sixty thousand letters and cards a year. The bulk of the correspondence related to routine matters, including appointments, invitations, autograph requests, etc. General Eisenhower and Colonel Schulz developed a set of guidelines, policies, and rules which the staff followed in handling this correspondence. Autograph seekers were limited to one Eisenhower autograph. Eisenhower did not autograph books he did not write, currency, items not related to him, or likenesses of himself. The ex-president did not write forewords to books, fill out questionnaires, or agree to interviews over the telephone. He declined to comment publicly on the literary efforts of other writers. Requests for financial help were generally turned down by his staff, and most requests for personal items for charity auctions and benefits were also denied. Memberships and honorary positions in numerous organizations and projects were declined by Eisenhower, if he felt he would be unable to participate actively or at least keep informed about it. -
Women in Military Bers, Defense Advisory Marine Ordered to Combat Women in Naval Reserve Fighter Program, Promoted New Berne
Della H. Raney was born in Suffolk, Virginia, on January 10, 1912. A graduate of the Lincoln Hospital School of Nursing in Durham, North Carolina, Raney was the first African-American nurse commissioned a lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II. Her first tour of duty was at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. As a lieutenant serving at Tuskegee Army Airfield in Alabama, she was appointed Chief Nurse, Army Nurse Corps in 1942, the first African American to be so appointed. She later served as Chief Nurse at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Raney was promoted to captain in 1945. After the war, she was assigned to head the nursing staff at the station hospital at Camp Beale, California. In 1946, she was Della H. Raney promoted to major and served a tour of duty in Japan. Major Raney retired in Photo: Courtesy National Archives, 1978 Still Picture Branch, 208 PU-161K-1, African American List 147 January 1999 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 New Year’s Day. 1992: 1952: COL Irene O. RADM Grace Hopper, Galloway appointed inventor of computer Women’s Army Corps language COBOL, who (WAC) Director. coined term “bug,” died. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1957: COL Mary Louise 1971: Robin L. Quigley 1994: Master Sgt Nell 1996: USS Hopper, guided 1973: New 11-week WAC 1965: 4 Navy nurses 1943: 8 African-American Milligan appointed WAC appointed Women Hubbard, first enlisted missile destroyer, Officer/Officer Candidate injured during Viet Cong Women’s Auxiliary Army Director. Accepted for Volunteer woman to retire from commissioned; named after Course inaugurated, terrorist bombing this Corps (WAAC) officers Emergency Service military service after RADM Grace Hopper. -
The Death of Anna Mae Hays, United States MOURNING Army
Senate Resolution No. 3506 BY: Senator KENNEDY MOURNING the death of Anna Mae Hays, United States Army General, distinguished citizen and devoted member of her community WHEREAS, It is the custom of this Legislative Body to pay tribute to citizens of the State of New York whose lifework and civic endeavor served to enhance the quality of life in their communities and the great State of New York; and WHEREAS, Anna Mae Hays, an Army nurse who served overseas during World War II, led the Army Nurse Corps at the height of the Vietnam War, and became the first female general in American military history, died on Sunday, January 7, 2018; she was 97; and WHEREAS, Born in Buffalo, New York, on February 16, 1920, Anna Mae Violet McCabe was the daughter of Salvation Army officers; she dreamed of becoming a nurse as a young girl, wrapping bandages around the legs of a kitchen table; and WHEREAS, Anna Mae Hays graduated from high school in Allentown, Pennsylvania, before earning a nursing degree from Allentown General Hospital's School of Nursing in 1941; and WHEREAS, Upon the completion of her studies, Anna Mae Hays joined the United States Army Nurse Corps in May of 1942, having been inspired to serve her country after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; and WHEREAS, Anna Mae Hays deployed to Ledo, Assam, India with the 20th General Hospital in January of 1943, during which time she treated patients in one of the worst malaria-infested districts, as well as members of the special-operations Army unit known as Merrill's Marauders; and WHEREAS, In -
Prisoners of War Page #41—44: Freedom Is Not Free Page #45—47: Against All Odds Page #48—57: Bibliography Page #63—65: Additional Tools Page #60 Conclusion
1 Table of Contents Page #2: Table of Contents/Disclaimer Page #3: Acknowledgements Page #4: Introduction Page #5—11: Historical Overview Page #12—13: Course Overview Page #14—16: Heroes Page #17—20: Called to Duty Page #21—24: The Healers Page #25—28: In the Line of Fire Page #29—31: Killed in Action Page #32—34: Flyers Page #35—37: Leadership Page #38—40: Prisoners of War Page #41—44: Freedom Is Not Free Page #45—47: Against All Odds Page #48—57: Bibliography Page #63—65: Additional Tools Page #60 Conclusion The views within this curriculum represents the opinions of the author and should not be taken to represent the views of the Department of the Army, the Department of Defense, the United States Government, or the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army, Manpower and Reserve Affairs or its members © Copyright 2013 by Krewasky A. Salter, Ph.D. 2 Acknowledgements Thanks to the Women In Military Service For America Memorial Foundation. Without their extensive research library and primary source materials, writing and filming would have been substantially more difficult. Thank you Memorial President Brigadier General (ret) Wilma Vaught, Public Relations Director Marilla Cushman, Education Center Director Donna Houle and Chris Demarest. A special thanks to Curator of Collections Britta Granrud, for helping to identify and select literary sources. Her expertise in the subject enhanced my knowledge. General Vaught and Marilla Cushman agreed to pre- read the “Historical Overview” that appears on the website. A great deal of gratitude is owed to them for their input as I condensed 238 years of women’s military history into seven pages.