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Staff Corps Officer
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Service Details
Service Status
USN Retired
Final Rank
Lieutenant Commander
Last Service Branch
Medical Services
Last Designator
230X-Medical Service Corps Officer
Last Designator Group
Staff Corps Officer
Primary Unit
1974-1978, 230X, Naval Medical Clinic (NMC) San Diego (Balboa Naval Hospital)
Previously Held Designator's
HN-0000-Hospitalman
HM-0000-Hospital Corpsman
HM-8506-Advanced Medical Laboratory Technician
HM-8417-Laboratory Technician
Service Years
1957 - 1978
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What are you doing now:
Enjoying the retired life. My wife and I sold our home health company in 2012 and since then we enjoy our grandchildren and I have immersed myself in genealogy.
1958-1959, HN-0000, NATTC (Staff) Norman, OK, Naval Air Technical Training Command (Staff)
1959-1960, HM-0000, National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) Bethesda, MD
1960-1961, HM-8417, MCB Quantico, VA
1961-1963, HM-8506, Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
1963-1965, HM-8417, Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS)
1966-1966, 230X, Naval Justice School (Faculty Staff)
1966-1967, 230X, Naval Hospital Charleston, SC
1967-1969, 230X, Cornell University NROTC (Staff)
1969-1974, 230X, Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, CA
1974-1978, 230X, Naval Medical Clinic (NMC) San Diego (Balboa Naval Hospital)
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