The USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee, a guided-missile destroyer, was lately launched by the United States Navy. The ship, christened in 2021, is known as after one of many U.S. Navy’s first ever nurses.
Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee entered service in 1908 as a part of the “Sacred Twenty,” the U.S. Navy’s first nurses. Inside three years, she had gained management of the corps because the forerunner of at the moment’s Director of Nurse Corps.
Rear Admiral Cynthia Kuehner served because the consultant of the Chief of Naval Operations on the ship’s christening, the place he spoke about what Higbee means to the Nurse Corps and Navy Drugs.
“Because the twenty sixth Director of the Navy Nurse Corps I acknowledge that I’m right here in no small half due to the imaginative and prescient, initiative and conspicuous achievements of this nice warship’s namesake,” Kuehner mentioned. “Because the second Superintendent she led the Navy Nurse Corps with awe inspiring distinction. On this night’s ceremony we have fun her legacy. We honor her service. And we be sure that the permanence of her indomitable spirit is enshrined and revered by all who behold her.”
Higbee’s look after 1000’s of casualties in World Warfare I and throughout the so-called Spanish Flu epidemic that adopted in the end earned her a Navy Cross.
“Lenah Higbee understood within the context of World Warfare I and the influenza pandemic of 1918 that nursing’s presence on the entrance and within the battle is as important to victory as some other aspect of recent warfare,” Kuehner added. “With unusual imaginative and prescient and valor Superintendent Higbee pursued credible standing for the all-female Navy Nurse Corps, preventing throughout the establishment in opposition to overt discrimination and for the frequent primary options of navy service together with pay, rank, uniforms and even housing.”
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