Portuguese Paratroop Nurses

The Portuguese Paratroop Nurses (Portuguese: Enfermeiras Pára-quedistas) were a group of 46 women that, between 1961 and 1974 (the duration of the Portuguese Colonial War), became the first women to be integrated into the Portuguese Armed Forces. == Origins == In 1955, Isabel Rilvas, a Portuguese aviator, went to France to take a parachuting course at Biscarrosse.