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Students at these academies are organized as cadets, and graduate with appropriate licenses from the U.S. Coast Guard and/or the U.S. Merchant Marine.While not immediately offered a commission as an officer within a service, cadets do have the opportunity to participate in commissioning programs like the Strategic Sealift Officer Program (Navy) and Maritime Academy Graduate (Coast Guard).
Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) is the United States Army's premier medical institution. Located on Fort Sam Houston, BAMC is a 425-bed academic medical center, and is the Department of Defense's largest facility and only Level 1 trauma center. BAMC is also home to the Center for the Intrepid, an outpatient rehabilitation facility.
Nearly all of them were volunteers, and 90 percent served as military nurses, though women also worked as physicians, air traffic controllers, intelligence officers, clerks and other positions in the U.S. Women's Army Corps, U.S. Navy, Air Force and Marines and the Army Medical Specialist Corps.
All defense academic institutions, meanwhile, including military academies, are ordered to “teach that America and its founding documents remain the most powerful force for good in human history.”
The U.S. Army says transgender individuals may no longer join the service. In a social media message Friday, the U.S. Army said it would stop accepting transgender service members and would "stop ...
In May 1943, Dr. Margaret Craighill became the first female doctor to become a commissioned officer in the Army Medical Corps; [23] she was assigned as the Women’s Consultant to the Surgeon General of United States Army commanding the Women’s Health and Welfare Unit and liaison duty with the WAC. During her military service, she was ...
The military still refused to allow gay and transgender Americans to serve, and would discharge any that were caught in the ranks. Things got political, and the infamous “Don’t Ask, Don’t ...
To ensure that all active and reserve medical personnel in uniform are trained and ready to provide medical care in support of operational forces around the world. To provide a medical benefit commensurate with the service and sacrifice of more than 9.5 million active duty personnel, military retirees and their families.