NURSING IS MOVING WHERE? When you think of nursing, the typical environment that you imagine is squeaky clean white tile floors, printed scrubs with colorful nursing clogs, a stethoscope around the neck, and a warm smile greeting you to ask, “How are you feeling today?” Now imagine that you are the only nurse for a Brigade of 3,000 soldiers and surrounded by tent walls, sheeted linoleum flooring affixed with nails, standard issue green Army cots, plywood structures built to resemble a six-bed open care area and a nursing station. Overhead you hear HH-60M Blackhawks rapidly approaching with your third medical evacuation of the day and you prepare to receive. Your heart is caught in your throat as you wonder if this gunshot wound to the head and neck will walk off the helicopter or if you will be looking at a Glasgow Coma Scale of 3. Nursing within the military has expanded its role to encompass traditional nursing functions and the sustained need for nursing care in the Brigade Combat Team (BCT). The Brigade Nurse position was a part of the 2003 movement to transition the Army from a traditional, division-based force to a brigade-based force; a concept that has come to be known as “modularity.” BCTs were rebuilt by making proportionate combat, combat support, and combat service support functions, formerly provided by the host division, organic to the BCTs’ organization. Currently, there is one medical surgical (66H) or public health (66B) nurse assigned to the Brigade Support Battalion to support the medical readiness of the soldiers assigned to each of the 45 BCTs under the directives of the U.S. Army Forces Command.