This is the story of Evelyn Decker, a decorated veteran of World War II and the Korean War.  1st Lt. Decker (later captain) served in the U.S. Army, Nurse Corps.  She was among the nearly 600 military nurses who served in the military hospital in the Korean theater.  She was assigned to the 8055 Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) Unit.

When Evelyn Decker entered the Army Nurse Corps on 9 November 1944, she began a career that would make her a pioneer as the military underwent changes to reshape the Army. The Women’s Armed Services Integration Act of 1948 granted women permanent status in the Regular and Reserve forces of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps as well as the newly created Air Force. 

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The 2dRanger Infantry Company (Airborne) was the first and only all-black Ranger unitT in the history of the United States Army. Its ten-month life span included selection, training, and seven months of combat deployment in Korea, after which the unit was deactivated. Master Sergeant (Ret) Edward Posey’s The US Army’s First, Last, and Only All-Black Rangers: The 2d Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) in the Korean War, 1950–1951 is the first complete history of this elite, all-volunteer unit, whose members were drawn from the 3rd Battalion of the 505th Airborne Infantry Regiment and the 80th Airborne Anti-Aircraft Battalion.

After experiencing the normal travails of bootcamp at Fort Benning, which segregation and racism only made worse, the all-black Rangers set out to join the Korean War in late 1950.

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