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First Navy Nurse Corps officer to serve as a Congressional Fellow in the office of a United States Senator. 1996 LT Joseph Cosentino Jr. First Navy Nurse Corps officer to become jump qualified and earn insignia. 1997 RADM Karen A. Harmeyer First female Naval officer, Reserve Component promoted to the rank of rear admiral (upper half). 1999
The Navy pays tuition for Scholarship Midshipmen, educational fees (i.e. lab fees), as well as a stipend for books. All Midshipmen fall under one of three types: Navy Option, Navy Nurse Option, or Marine Option. The Navy does not pay for room and board; however, some schools will offer scholarships to cover at least a portion of room and board.
A direct commission officer (DCO) is a United States uniformed officer who has received an appointed commission without the typical prerequisites for achieving a commission, such as attending a four-year service academy, a four-year or two-year college ROTC program, or one of the officer candidate school or officer training school programs, the latter OCS/OTS programs typically slightly over ...
When the Navy Nurse Corps was established in 1908, Hasson became its first Superintendent, taking the oath of office on 18 August 1908. Under her leadership, 19 additional nurses were recruited and trained for Naval service during 1908. The Nurse Corps had grown to 85 trained nurses by the time Hasson resigned as Superintendent in January 1911.
In the United States Navy, commissioned officers are either line officers or staff corps officers. Staff corps officers are specialists in career fields that are professions unto themselves, such as physicians , lawyers , civil engineers , chaplains , and supply specialists .
The Navy has a set of core values that they embed within each sailor that graduates from basic training -- Honor, Commitment and Courage. Here's how I apply those core values: Honor.
Jane Kendeigh, who became the first Navy flight nurse to serve in an active combat zone in 1945 in Iwo Jima. [1]A flight nurse is a registered nurse specializing in the field of providing comprehensive pre-hospital, emergency critical care, and hospital care to a vast scope of patients.
The STA-21 commissioning program is designed to allow active-duty sailors with high ability to gain a college education and become commissioned officers in the unrestricted line (URL), special duty officer (intelligence), special duty officer (cryptologic warfare, formerly information warfare and cryptologist), nurse corps (NC), nuclear, supply corps (SC), civil engineer corps (CEC), explosive ...