Fort Lewis' Madigan gets new top nurse

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE -- A nurse who treated victims at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, and at one of the Army's worst air disasters took command at Madigan Army Medical Center at Fort Lewis this week. Maj. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho previously served as commander of the Walter Reed Health Care System. She is also in command of the Army Nurse Corps. She succeeds Brig. Gen. Sheila Baxter, who led Madigan the past three years and is retiring to pursue a master's degree. Horoho - who was at the Pentagon when hijackers crashed a plane into the building on Sept. 11 - rushed to the scene and set up first aid for the wounded, later earning her recognition as a "nurse hero" by the American Red Cross. She was also at Fort Bragg, N.C. in 1994 when 24 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division were killed in an aircraft crash and fire.... [read full story]