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But a Pentagon spokesman said Monday that Hegseth was renaming the base to honor Pfc. Roland L. Bragg, who he said was a ...

Each day, as we have learned, brings new information about another first for Black Americans. It is something that may go on ...

Nurses could soon be living in Army barracks, it emerged last night. The Ministry of Defence and Department of Health have been discussing ways to provide lodgings in London and the South East ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, has died at the age of 104. She passed away earlier this month at a ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who battled racial discrimination in a barrier-breaking career as a military nurse, serving as the first African American in the regular Army Nurse Corps and later caring ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Nurses from six countries will be fast-tracked to work in Australia under a new pathway designed to address shortages and cut red tape.

She was 104. Her great-niece Gilda Leftenant confirmed the death, in a nursing facility. Mrs. Leftenant-Colon joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in February 1948, several months before President ...

Four U.S. Army units, including the 2nd Mobile Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division and a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Battalion will deploy overseas this spring.

She retired as a chief nurse in 1965, according to the Tuskegee Airmen Inc. website. From there, she served as a school nurse at Amityville Memorial High School in New York from 1971 to 1984 ...

Her family calls her a “trailblazer” who persevered after initially having her application for military service turned down because the military was not accepting Black nurses. In 1945, she was ...

RSF rejects army's claims as propaganda, accuses of spreading falsehoods War has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, caused widespread hunger Advisor to RSF leader resigns, cites ...