Dr. Sturtz has been a naval aviator and naval medical officer; served in Vietnam; and was the commanding officer of USNS Mercy; the Atlantic Fleet Surgeon, and a Professor of Clinical Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD. Conducted by Jan K. Herman, BUMED Historian, Bethesda, MD, 11/7/1991, 11/27/1991, 12/3/1991.