Background and aims:

The Air Force (Spain) was created in October 1939 and its Corps of Health in February 1940, in which medical assistant noncommissioned officers were integrated. The activies of Air Force medical assistant noncommissioned officers were suppressed in July 1941. The beginning of the professional military nursing of the Air Force will be explored with a focus on the military medicine assistants.

Material and methods:

Qualitative techniques have been used, with focus on documentary observation.

Results:

It was possible to determine the beginning and the end of the only promotion of military medicine assistants of the Air Force.

Conclusions:

When the Air Force was created, it was decided that the medical assistants were going to be part of the auxiliary staff of the Section of Medicine of Health Corps, in line with the national qualification in force. As a result, it was in the Air Force where the full consideration of military was firstly granted to medical assistants; however, the Ministry of the Air changed its previous determination to require medical assistants as auxiliary personnel in the Air Force’s Health Corps to consider them totally dispensable, applying this change withinless than a year.