i looked on a map and the map showed plattsburgh was up by the canadian border. it look far away from home so i chose that one. >> where did you get your medical degree? >> suny downstate. >> when did you join the navy? are you still in the navy? >> are you in the navy full- time? >> yes. >> howdy do the navy full-time and the private hospital? >> we have a memorandum of understanding joined the fairfax hospital and the navy hospital. since coming to this area, i have been working with the nova group primarily because of my transplants training and wanting to eat those skills fresh and current. also, based on this agreement that we have to be able to cooperatively work with each other, they help us with our cases at our institution and vice versa. >> when you are in the navy, working, you are located where? >> correct. >> take us to the time you were in afghanistan. when was that? >> that was in the summer of 2011. >> how long were you there? >> approximately six months. >> what was your purpose for being there? >> i was deployed to support the second marine expe

looked on a map and the map showed that plattsburgh was up border.canadian and it looked so far from home, i said i'll choose that. purchase looks too close. where did you get your medical degree? downstate. >> when did you join the navy? >> after medical school. >> what year? 1998. >> are you still in the navy? >> yes. >> navy full time? yes. >> how do you do navy full time private hospital fairfax? a we have a -- we have understanding between the fairfax hospital and navy hospital. since coming to this area, i've working with the group primarily because of the and wanting aining to keep those skills sort of current. the agreement to work with each other. they help us with our cases at vice versa ion and in my case. you're located where? bethesda? >> right, right. time when you he were in afghanistan? >> yes, sir. >> when was that? >> that was in the summer of 2011. 2011. >> how long were you there? >> six months. > what was your purpose for being there. >> deployed to support the second marine expeditionary case, i was my there to provide medical support, specifically surgical supp

and i looked on a map and the map showed that plattsburgh was up by the canadian border. and it look far away enough from home that i said i'll choose that one because purchase looks too close. >> where did you get your medical degree? >> suny downstate. >> downstate? >> yes. >> and when did you join the united states navy? >> after medical school. after medical school. >> what year? >> 1998. >> are you still in the navy? >> yes. >> are you navy full-time? >> yes. >> how do you do navy full-time and private hospital fairfax? >> we have -- we have a -- we call it a memorandum of understanding between the fairfax hospital and navy hospital. and since coming to this area, i've been working with the inova group primarily because of my transplant training and wanting to keep those skills sort of fresh and current. and also, again, based on this agreement that we have, you know, to be able to cooperate if we work with each other. they help us with our cases at our institution and vice versa in my case. >> so when you're in the navy working, you're located where? walter reed. >>

the two schools that did have a place for me were suny purchase and the other one was suny college at plattsburgh. i looked on a map and the map burgh was up by the canadian border. it look far away from home so i chose that one. >> where did you get your medical degree? downstate. >> when did you join the navy? are you still in the navy? >> are you in the navy full-time ? >> yes. >> howdy do the navy full-time and the private hospital? >> we have a memorandum of understanding joined the fairfax hospital and the navy hospital. since coming to this area, i have been working with the nova group primarily because of my transplants training and wanting to eat those skills fresh and current. also, based on this agreement tot we have to be able cooperatively work with each other, they help us with our cases at our institution and vice versa. >> when you are in the navy, working, you are located where? as that? >> correct. >> take us to the time you were in afghanistan. when was that? >> that was in the summer of 2011. >> how long were you there? >> approximately six months. >> what was your purpose for