Soon after her entry into the military, Sampson was shot in the thigh during a battle in 1782 but removed the bullet herself to help hide her identity. The Women’s Memorial honors the service of America’s women in defense of the nation from the founding of the country to the present and appropriately stands at the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery. Rose contracted yellow fever while in service in Havana, Cuba. The number of women engaged in major U.S. combat operations is steadily growing. When Edmonds contracted malaria in 1863, she left her regiment to avoid her secret identity being discovered. The Persian Gulf War demonstrated to the American public the capabilities of the country’s servicewomen. Nurse Rose Heavren, a contract nurse with the Army, wrote in her memoirs that supplies frequently ran short, which made nursing difficult. They were transferred to a prison camp in Japan and held for five months. She later received a 2-year commission as a second lieutenant, and during her tenure in the military, Dunwoody became the first female battalion commander for the 82nd Airborne Division in 1992 and the first female general assigned at Fort Bragg in 2000. Over 400 Army, Navy and Red Cross nurses stationed overseas and in military hospitals in the United States died in the line of duty during World War I. Ann Dunwoody was born to a military family in 1953 in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Sampson later composed a biography, The Female Review, which covered her experiences in the war and proved to be inspirational to historians and soldiers alike. It was vital that the US mobilize men and arms as rapidly as possible. Women in the United States have long fought for the right to be included in many facets of society such as the right to vote to breaking into professions like the medical field and getting females elected to major government offices. Due to concerns about the coronavirus, the Women’s Memorial is temporarily closed until further notice. The act placed a two percent ceiling on the number of women in each of the services, restricted promotions to one full colonel or Navy captain as Chief of the Nurse Corps and/or Service Director, and limited the number of female officers who could serve as lieutenant colonels or Navy commanders. “A taboo area seems to be the sexual desires of women who deploy,” the authors write. Women served as aircraft pilots carrying troops and supplies; deployed on reconnaissance missions; served aboard hospital ships, in mobile medical units and in field hospitals; crewed planes and helicopters; directed artillery, drove trucks, ran prisoner-of-war facilities; served in port security units, in military police units, and as perimeter guards; and performed a myriad of Eventually, more than 1,500 contract nurses served in Army and Navy general hospitals, aboard the hospital ship Relief, in stateside camps, the Philippine Islands, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii. Due to her background in mathematics, Hopper was assigned to the Bureau of Ordnance Computation Project at Harvard University. The plane she boarded was ill-equipped for medical care, and the only people on board to provide medical care were Ott and another sergeant. In the largest single deployment of women in US military history, with widespread public support, 41,000 military women made up seven percent of the US Armed Forces in the Persian Gulf. One told Canuso about the time he was instructing other young men when a female colleague walked by in her workout gear. In an interview conducted during her recuperation, she stated that she did not remember being hit, but remembered coming to to find herself lying on the floor with a shrapnel wound in the leg.