Based on the Vietnam Women's Memorial Foundation, we know that approximately 11,000 military women were stationed in Vietnam during the war. All of them were volunteers and 90% served as nurses, members of the Army Nurse Corps. They startes arriving to Vietnam since 1956. During the conflict five of them died.
There were also physicians, air trafic controllers, inteligence officers, clerks, etc. serving at the U.S. Navy Airforce and Marines, the Army Medical Specialists Corps, and the U.S. Women's Army Corps.
