Army nurses in Vietnam, 1968
1Lt. Sharon Rex (center) with four Army nurses enjoying a much earned day off. Approximately 11,000 military women were stationed in Vietnam during the war. 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. Five female Army nurses died over the course of the war. www.virtualwall.org/women.htm Photo courtesy of Sharon Rex (center). Sharon served at the 12th Evac Hospital in Cu Chi and the 312th Evac Hospital at Chu Lai. Her husband, 1Lt. Joseph Rex was our platoon leader.
Army nurses in Vietnam, 1968
1Lt. Sharon Rex (center) with four Army nurses enjoying a much earned day off. Approximately 11,000 military women were stationed in Vietnam during the war. 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. Five female Army nurses died over the course of the war. www.virtualwall.org/women.htm Photo courtesy of Sharon Rex (center). Sharon served at the 12th Evac Hospital in Cu Chi and the 312th Evac Hospital at Chu Lai. Her husband, 1Lt. Joseph Rex was our platoon leader.