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On the 23 October 1915, the Marquette, an Allied transport ship, was hit by a torpedo fired by a German submarine, and sank in the Aegean Sea, with great loss of life, including ten New Zealand nurses. The Marquette, a large steamer, was built in Glasgow in 1898. Designed as a cargo vessel, she was converted to a transport ship at the beginning of the First World War. It wasn’t a hospital ship...
Please add the profiles of those who were or are in the United States Army Dental Corps.== History: During the Revolutionary War, the military view was that dental care was the soldier’s responsibility. This policy continued through War of 1812, operations on the Western Frontier and the Civil War. During this time soldiers needing dental care were treated by laymen in the unit, hospital stewar...
United States Army Nurse Corps (AN or ANC) was formally established by the U.S. Congress in 1901. It is one of the six medical special branches (or "corps") of officers which – along with medical enlisted soldiers – comprise the Army Medical Department (AMEDD).The ANC is the nursing service for the U.S. Army and provides highly qualified nursing staff in support of the Department of Defense med...
Medical Corps (MC) of the U.S. Army is a staff corps (non-combat specialty branch) of the U.S. Army Medical Department (AMEDD) consisting of commissioned medical officers – physicians with either an M.D. or a D.O. degree, at least one year of post-graduate clinical training, and a state medical license.The MC traces its earliest origins to the first physicians recruited by the Medical Departmen...
This is an umbrella for Medical Corps projects. Please do NOT add projects here. == If you do not see a project for your country’s Medical Corps, please consider creating one or put the need in the Medical Portal discussion @ Medical Portal project--Needs, questions, concerns & related issues From: Wikipedia - Medical Corps ===A medical corps is generally a military branch or officer corps resp...
Please add those who are or were in the US Navy Dental Corps.== The Dental Corps of the United States Navy consists of naval officers who have a doctorate in either dental surgery (DDS) or dental medicine (DMD) and who practice dentistry for Sailors and Marines. The primary mission of the Corps is to prevent or remedy dental conditions that may interfere with the performance of duty by members ...
United States Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) consists of the five distinct medical corps of the Air Force and enlisted medical technicians. The AFMS was created in 1949 after the newly independent Air Force’s first Surgeon General, Maj. General Malcolm C. Grow (1887–1960), convinced the United States Army and President Harry S. Truman that the Air Force needed its own medical service.In the s...