The Nurse Corps consists entirely of commissioned officers.
Mrs. Leoffler recently resigned as a lieutenant in the Navy's Nurse Corps.
In 1936 it was reformed as the Aerial Nurse Corps with 78 nurses.
These women were quickly demobilized when hostilities ceased, and aside from the Nurse Corps the soldiery became once again exclusively male.
The AAF was virtually autonomous by 1942, and likewise its Nurse Corps.
The Nurse Corps continues as a significant part of the Army medical department.
The Nurse Corps has a distinctive insignia, an "N" superimposed on an Army caduceus.
She was Director of the United States Navy Nurse Corps from 1970 to 1975.
The Nurse Corps continues as a prominent part of the Navy Medicine establishment.
She retired from the Nurse Corps as a Lieutenant Commander in 1947.
