Navy Supply Corps US Navy Patch

Navy supply officers answer to "Chop," a nickname that comes from the oak leaf sprig on their collars and its likeness to a pork chop. That sprig of gold oak leaves and acorns sits at the center of...

The 1908 on the scroll is the year Congress created the Navy Nurse Corps, by an act signed on May 13, 1908. The first twenty nurses, remembered as the Sacred Twenty, reported to the Naval Medical...