The story of a wounded combat Veteran turned medical student's road trip around the country to see the land he dedicated eleven and half years of his life to and meet his fellow Americans.
I'm a 30 y.o now 2nd year medical student at Quillen College of Medicine. I retired from the Army as a Captain after losing my arm in a little "incident" in Afghanistan.
Some people have e-mailed wanting to know my military history, so here's the cliff notes!
Entered the Army in 1995 as an Infantry private. Did my basic/AIT at Ft. Benning, GA before going to Fort Hood. At Hood I was in 2/7 Cav (Garryowen) of the First Cavalry Division. I then did a year in Korea with 1-9 Infantry (Manchu) as part of the 2nd Infantry Division. From there i transitioned to the TN Guard as a medic, completing another AIT as Fort Sam Houston as a 91W (Medic) in 2000. I then went to Officer Candidate School in 2001/2 (Class 45) and comissioned as a 2LT in August of 2002. Flight school followed in 2003 (class 3-18) and I got my wings on April 28th 2004. After Apache school I served as a platoon leater with R Trp 4/278th Cav (Rogues) until April 28th 2006 when I broke my wings. I finally medically retired February 22 2007 at Fort Sam Houston and subsequently began medical school at Quillen College of Medicine in July of 2007. Now i'm coming to a town near you!
If this were a book, would you be interested in it?
2 comments:
I was wondering how you and RTD were doing. Hope you are both fine. Keep us up-to-date!
no fair! a summer cliffhanger!!
Kath
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