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Ray horoho biography

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        1. Horoho is the daughter of retired army officer Frank Dallas and Josephine Dallas.
        2. Colonel Horoho was born in and grew up in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
        3. Horoho became the 23rd Chief of the US Army Nurse Corps in , receiving a two-grade promotion from Colonel to Major General.
        4. Horoho has commanded the Army Nurse Corps since , when she received a rare two-grade promotion from colonel to major general.

          5. Colonel Horoho was born in and grew up in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.!

          Horoho takes oath as first nurse, female surgeon general

          ARLINGTON, Va.

          (Army News Service, Dec. 8, 2011) -- Lt. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho, the first nurse and first woman appointed, became the Army's 43rd surgeon general Dec. 7 in a ceremony at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall.

          She was nominated to the position by President Barack Obama May 10 and was later approved by the Senate.

          She succeeds Lt.

          Gen. Eric B. Schoomaker, who will retire in January.

          "Over the past decade, Army medicine has led the joint health effort in the most austere environments." Horoho said. "As part of the most decisive and capable land force in the world, we stand ready to adapt."

          A decade of this war, she said, has left a fighting force with both physical and psychological scars.

          "We are dedicated to identifying and caring for those Soldiers who have sustained psychological and physical trauma associated with an Army engaged in a protracted war," she said, adding that the war fighter does