Introduction: "Lady, you're in the army now" -- "The bright adventure of army nursing": meeting nursing demands for the Vietnam War -- "An officer and a gentleman": gender and a changing army -- "A wonderful, horrible experience": nursing education and practice -- "Helmets and hair curlers": gender and wartime nursing -- "I'm afraid we're going to have to just change our ways": wives, mothers, and pregnant nurses in the army -- "You mean we get women over here?": gender and sexuality in the war zone -- "Not all women wore love beads in the sixties": postwar depictions of Vietnam War nurses -- Conclusion: officers, nurses, and women.
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