For US Army Capt. Molly Murphy, the hardest part of the Army’s grueling Ranger Course was the very first day. “I did not sleep at all the night before, I was so scared, way in over my head,” she told ...

WASHINGTON — Eleven-year-old Kelly K. Spencer put on her gloves, apron and face mask as she prepared to enter the hospital operating room in 2000. This wasn’t your typical take-a-child-to-work day, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONE TREE, Colo. (KDVR) — The first female ...

LONE TREE, Colorado (KCNC) — Throughout her life, Molly Murphy has been both tough and girly. Now she’s taking that combo to the U.S. armed forces as the first female nurse to graduate from Army ...

The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died. She was 104. Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who retired as a major and died earlier this ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps when it was desegregated after World War II and the sister of one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen pilots, died Jan. 8 in ...

(CNN) — For US Army Capt. Molly Murphy, the hardest part of the Army’s grueling Ranger Course was the very first day. (CNN) — For US Army Capt. Molly Murphy, the hardest part of the Army’s grueling ...