In 1948, she became the first Black woman in the regular Army Nurse Corps. She later served in Vietnam with the Air Force.

First, as a nurse in Ortho Trauma surgery at Huntsville Hospital. She’s also a volunteer EMT with the New Market Volunteer Fire Department and an Army Reserve captain. When asked how she keeps ...

The first Americans awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the second-highest U.S. valor award for combat, were two nurses in World War I.

Nancy Leftenant-Colon passed away at 104 after serving as the first Black woman in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps following its ...

Colon, who became the first Black nurse in the U.S. Army Air Corps after President Harry S. Truman desegregated it in 1948, ...

Lorra Hernon, a pediatric nurse at OBCC and newly appointed first ... “That’s when I started learning the dynamics of what the Air Force Reserve can offer me and what I can offer them.” ...

The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was ...

"CRNAs — who earn their advanced degree and certification — are ready to serve, but too often face barriers to practice ...

First, as a nurse in Ortho Trauma surgery at Huntsville Hospital. She’s also a volunteer EMT with the New Market Volunteer Fire Department and an Army Reserve captain. Star-studded music festival ...

She worked at a local hospital before joining the U.S. Army Nurse Corps as a reservist in ... She married Air Force Reserve Capt. Bayard Colon, who died in 1972. The couple had no children.

Black nurses were still prohibited from joining the regular Army at the time ... She married Air Force Reserve Capt. Bayard K. Colon after retirement. Colon died of a heart attack in 1972.