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About 265,000 women served in the U.S. military during the Vietnam Era, with as many as 11,000 deployed to the Vietnam theater of operations During the Vietnam era, military women were not formally assigned combat roles. Nonetheless, they were deployed to combat zones where they experienced warzone stressors and hostile fire. Most military women in Vietnam served as nurses in the Army, Navy, or Air Force Nurse Corps. About 60% arrived with less than six months of active military duty service, often without any civilian or military job experience, and generally with little formal training for combat nursing. To expand the current understanding of moral injury to deployed female nurses, this book identified signs and symptoms of moral injury as reported by 100 randomly selected female veterans who served in the Vietnam War from the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study (NVVRS). Major themes identified by coders were compared to those previously identified, and results suggest that nurses in Vietnam experienced symptoms of moral injury consistent with those previously identified in male combat veterans and at a higher rate.

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