Nancy Leftenant, born September 29, 1920 in Goose Creek, South Carolina, became the first African American in the regular US Army Nurse Corps in March 1948. She trained at the Lincoln School for Nurses in the Bronx and joined the US Army Nurse Corps in 1945 as a second lieutenant.
In 1946, she was promoted and assigned to the 332nd Station Medical Group on Lockbourne Army Air Base in Ohio. Leftenant-Colon became a flight nurse in the US Air Force and served in Korea and Vietnam.
She was promoted to major and retired from the military and her post as Chief McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey. She passed away in January 9, 2025 at 104 years old.
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