Talk:Nurse Betty Bayer/@comment-173.61.113.6-20180924212233/@comment-204.28.242.220-20200913161456

Nurses, whether they were army or navy, were automatically officers. Back then women enlisted and often stated that they wanted to train as nurses, the navy would grant them the grant of second lieutenant and send them to nursing school. It doesn’t matter if she lied about her age, women were far more mature back then then they are today. So it would have been easier to pass for an 18 or 25 year old when in reality she was 16. And lastly, pharmacist mate we’re usually given to men who were a doctors aid.