what was the role of nurses?
Early in 1963, the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) launched Operation Nightingale, an intensive effort to recruit nurses to serve in Vietnam.
Vietnam War
American women served on active duty performing a variety of jobs. Early in 1963, the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) launched Operation Nightingale, an intensive effort to recruit nurses to serve in Vietnam.
where was agent orange stored in the united states Bien Hoa Air Base what is this agent exactly? It is an herbicide and defoliant chemical, one of the "tactical use" Rainbow Herbicides - used by the U.S. military as part of its chemical warfare program. what were its uses in the vietnam war? It was used in Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971. who fought in the war you just mentioned? Between North Vietnam (supported by  the Soviet Union, China, and other communist allies); and south Vietnam (supported by the United States, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Thailand, and other anti-communist allies). what is one myth that is related to it? Kuzmarov in "The Myth of the Addicted Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs" challenges the popular and Hollywood narrative that US soldiers were heavy drug users.
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Vietnam War [SEP] American nurses
American women served on active duty performing a variety of jobs. Early in 1963, the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) launched Operation Nightingale, an intensive effort to recruit nurses to serve in Vietnam. First Lieutenant Sharon Lane was the only female military nurse to be killed by enemy gunfire during the war, on 8 June 1969. One civilian doctor, Eleanor Ardel Vietti, who was captured by Viet Cong on 30 May 1962, in Buôn Ma Thuột, remains the only American woman unaccounted for from the Vietnam War. Although a small number of women were assigned to combat zones, they were never allowed directly in the field of battle.