Greenway Rasmussen Collection, Military Women’s Memorial) Easy Targets Nurses in Vietnam often faced not only intense demands for patient care but also the threat of attacks on close-by military facilities and even the hospitals themselves. Army nurses at the 93rd Evacuation Hospital in Long Binh, near Saigon, in 1968, work to stabilize a patient. There was a range of tour lengths for nurses, although Army nurses, like other soldiers, served one-year tours. They served in both active duty and reserve units. About 65 percent had less than two years of experience, and 79 percent were women.
“For grunts, the sound was a benevolent god with rotor blades for nurses, an adrenaline-pumping bird that brought us merciless, soul-harrowing work.”įor nurses in Vietnam that work occurred in Army field evacuation, surgical and MUST (Medical Unit, Self-contained Transportable) hospitals, on Navy hospital ships and aboard Air Force helicopters and planes. “In Pleiku, the sound was faint at first, then gradually grew louder a medevac chopper somewhere in the night sky,” writes Diane Carlson Evans, a former Army Nurse Corps captain and the founder of the Vietnam Women’s Memorial, in her book Healing Wounds. Nurses in Vietnam: Putting Themselves in Danger to Keep Men Alive Close
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