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BIO

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John Hughes, MD

Emergency Medicine Physician
Combat Veteran
1996 West Point Graduate (#1 grad)
Health Advocate
Concerned American

A 3rd generation West Pointer, I graduated from USMA in 1996. I branched infantry and deployed to Haiti with the 82nd Airborne Division. Soon after, I attended USUHS medical school and became a Medical Corps officer (ER physician). Then, I deployed to Iraq in 2005-06 with the 4th Infantry Division and to Afghanistan in 2007, 2008, and 2009 with 7th Special Forces Group. My last deployment was with a British field hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan in 2013. In 2015, I resigned my commission as a LTC and worked in private sector ERs.

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West Point Cadet

Infantry 2LT
Platoon Leader, 
82nd Airborne Div

MAJ, Medical Corps

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1997
Haiti

3/504 PIR, 82nd

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2005-2006
Iraq
3 HBCT, 4th ID

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2007, 2008, 2009
Afghanistan

1/7th SFG

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My view on patrol in Afghanistan

Treating casualties in war

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End of mission in Afghanistan

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My last view of Afghanistan

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Fallen brothers and sisters in arms are never forgotten

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