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United States Naval Hospital Guam is a U.S. Navy medical facility on the U.S. territory of Guam. It provides a broad range of medical services to active-duty U.S. military personnel under Joint Region Marianas. Besides the main hospital, the hospital runs a medical clinic and a dental clinic on Naval Base Guam. [2]
Women worked as nurses for the Union Navy during the American Civil War.In 1890, Ann Bradford Stokes, who during the American Civil War had worked as a nurse on the navy hospital ship USS Red Rover, where she assisted Sisters of the Holy Cross, was granted a pension of $12 a month, making her the first American woman to receive a pension for her own service in the military.
The Navy code named the type of base the Seabees built for its size and purpose, i.e. Oak, Acorn, Lion and Cub. A Lion was a main base for the fleet. Naval base Guam was the first named Naval Operating Base and later nicknamed The Pacific Supermarket. In recent years, expansion of the base has been opposed by many locals in Guam. [4]
First female Naval officer, Reserve Component promoted to the rank of rear admiral (upper half). 1999 RADM Kathleen L. Martin First Navy Nurse Corps officer to serve as a commanding officer at a "Big 3" Naval Medical Center National Naval Medical Center, today known as Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. 2000 RADM Karen A. Harmeyer
Naval Submarine Base Pearl Harbor at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (1917–present) Naval Base Guam (1944–present) Submarine Base Kings Bay at Camden County, Georgia (1978–present) Naval Base Kitsap at Kitsap Peninsula Washington (2004–present) Submarine Base New London at Groton, Connecticut (1915–present)
The USS New Jersey was the first submarine in the U.S. Navy's fleet designed specifically with women in mind.
Eleanor Vivian Valentin [1] is a native of Seattle, Washington and former college cheerleader. [2] After receiving her Bachelor of Science degrees in Zoology and Psychology at the University of Washington, she completed a Master's degree in Public Health (Health Policy and Planning), and a Master of Science degree in Public Health (Biostatistics) at the University of Hawaiʻi.
Navy Chief Elny McKinney and Anacelly McKinney became the first known same-sex couple to marry on a U.S. military base. They were wed at Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego. [36] The 50,000th graduate of the U.S. Navy's Naval Nuclear Power Training Unit in New York was a woman, MM3 Jenna Swindt, who completed her training in March. [37]