... individuals or the direct accession of fully qualified practitioners, ROTC graduates, when professionally qualified, are also eligible for commission within the Army Medical Specialist Corps. On April 16, 1947 President Harry S. Truman signed the Army Navy Nurses Act establishing the Women's Army Medical Specialist Corps (WMSC). The WMSC was retitled the Army Medical Specialist Corps (SP Corps) on August 9, 1955 with ... ...

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