Army veterinary corps supports warfighters on multiple frontsAugust 12, 2022Veterinarians have been a part of the United States military since the nation’s founding, when farriers provided informal veterinary care to the horses employed by George Washington’s Continental Army. The movement to establish a formal veterinary corps within the U.S. Army grew stronger during the Civil War, and it became reality in 1916 via the National Defense Act, designed to bolster American military preparedness as involvement in World War I grew more likely.
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