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In July 1943, the Army established basic training centers within the service commands. There, Army nurses received four weeks of basic military training designed to prepare them fully for their new duties as officers and Army nurses.

The training course with 144 training hours included military courtesy and customs; care of clothing and equipment; dismounted drill; physical training; defense against air, chemical, and mechanized attack; administration; organization; military sanitation, and ward and clinic nursing. Later during the war, speical emphasis was given to field training, map reading, tent pitching, efficiency reports, military hikes while carrying full equipment, and obstacle and infiltration courses.

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Following the training, the nurses were directly assigned to duty. They worked at various hospital installations in the United States and overseas or on hospital ships, trains or planes. The different types of duty performed by nurses  included (among others) general duty, administration, fever therapy, operating room work and anesthesia.

Hospital ships were used to evacuate casualties from battlefields across seas and channels to fixed medical facilities. In addition, they carried military patients from the global battle zones across wide oceans back to the United States. A contingent of 35 army nurses was authorized for a patient capacity of 500. Most army-operated hospital ships were initially assigned to the Mediterranean and European theaters of operation and then transferred to the Pacific theater following the Allied victory in Europe.
 

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Since June 1943, the Army utilized hospital ships for the evacuation of sick and wounded soldiers. Eventually, 24 hospital ships with a capacity for approximately 17,000 patients were maintained by the army.

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Hospital ships were used to evacuate casualties from battlefields across seas and channels to fixed medical facilities. In addition, they carried military patients from the global battle zones across wide oceans back to the United States. A contingent of 35 army nurses was authorized for a patient capacity of 500. Army-operated hospital ships served in the Mediterranean and European theaters of operation as well as in the Pacific theater.

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Hospital trains evacuated battle casualties from frontline stations to rear hospitals in many overseas locations. They also operated within the United States to returned sick and wounded soldiers from ports or airfields to military hospitals.

Whenever possible, one nurse was assigned to every hospital train ward car with litter patients or to several cars of ambulatory patients.Hospital trains were a vital part of the army's medical evacuation system and efficiently transported large numbers of patients under reliable conditions despite overland distances.

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Aerial evacuation of wounded American soldiers from North Africa began in 1943 and expanded to all fronts during the course of the war. The nurses who accompanied these medical flights were known as Flight Nurses.

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Flight Nurses were also exposed to additional dangers apart from the hazards of routine flying, because the aircraft used for aerial medical evacuations also served as transport carriers and thus carried no Red Cross markings to protect them from hostile fire. Each medical flight usually included a medic and a nurse, and could handle up to 25 patients.

The flight nurses administered routine medical attention such as bandage changes and oxygen provision, supervised adverse patient responses to their injuries or fear of flight (many soldiers had never previously flown in an airplane), and handled in-flight medical emergencies. The unusually rough landings, takeoffs and bumpy flight patterns necessitated flight nurses stay in excellent physical condition.

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Initially, Army Nurses received $70 per month plus maintenance for the first three years. In June 1942, the salary of Army and Navy Nurses was increased from $70 to $90 basic pay per month. It was the first time that nurses received more pay than some of the corpsmen they were teaching (the base pay of a Pharmacist’s Mate, third class was $78, while a Chief Pharmacist’s Mate earned $138.00 per month). Finally in December 1942, the payment of nurses was adapted to the same amount paid to Army officers. 
 

Rank	Monthly Pay	Subsistence	Rental
Colonel	$333.33	$21.00	$105.00
Lt.Colonel	$291.67	$21.00	$105.00
Major	$250.00	$21.00	$90.00
Captain	$200.00	$21.00	$75.00
1st Lt.	$166.67	$21.00	$60.00
2nd Lt.	$150.00	$21.00	$45.00

Payment was increased by adding 5% for each year of service. Furthermore Army Nurses received free food and lodging, free supply of clothing and equipment as well as free medical and dental services. Additionally, they were entitled to the same benefits like Army men. For example life insurance at low Army rates, free mail, furlough rates on railroad tickets, special rates at movies and theatres, government prices at the post exchange, hospitality by USO, Red Cross and special service clubs. Furlough was 30 days a year (if one could be spared from duty). 

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"Singin in itself, has never been an established treatment in the eyes of the healing profession, yet the effect it has on the wounded spirits of men and women affected by war, make it an important adjunct to professional care. A singing group is usually a happy group and happiness is contagious. So sing, Officers of the Army Nurse Corps! May the lightheartedness of your song help to heal the minds and hearts of the people within your hearing, as your nursing abilities comfort to the sick and wounded soldiers for whom you care." (Source: Foreword of the "Army Nurse Corps Song Book")

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