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Lessons From A Young Soldier's Life - Finding Success In Life, Love And Career (Paperback)
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Lessons From A Young Soldier's Life - Finding Success In Life, Love And Career (Paperback)
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Both inspiring and heartbreaking, Lessons From A Young Soldier's
Life is the fascinating true adventure story of Captain Sean
Grimes, RN, PA-C, U.S. Army, the first U.S. military Physician
Assistant killed in combat. It is great reading for men and women
and teenagers will enjoy it, too. March 4, 2005 starts out as just
another day Sean has to survive being shot at and bombed by the
enemy before he can go home on leave to New York City. The
highlight of his leave will be taking his girlfriend to Times
Square and asking her to marry him. Before flying to New York City
Sean first has to survive another day being a Physician Assistant
for U.S. soldiers and Marines in the violent Anbar Province of
Iraq. Sean brought to the battlefield medical skills and experience
equal to that of an emergency room doctor back in the U.S. The
troops knew that having "Doc Grimes" on patrol with them meant they
had a better chance of surviving when they were shot or bombed.
After many twists and turns, the ending of the story hinges on a
fateful decision Sean made when his unit first deployed to Iraq:
the decision to leave the relative safety of his base camp to go
out on combat patrols and night raids with the soldiers of the
Scout Platoon. Sean doesn't have to put himself in harms way on
these patrols but he does because of his desire to better care for
"his" soldiers when they are wounded. Sean overcame growing up in a
troubled household before moving on to experience adventures around
the globe. He was a soldier who, even after finding the woman of
his dreams, volunteered to go to the war in Iraq to serve his
country and, more importantly, serve the soldiers and Marines in
his area of operations. Sean is a virtual poster child for the
opportunities the U.S. military offers to members interested in
medicine. Right out of high school he decides to put off college
for a year and enlists in the Army Reserve and is trained as a
Medic at Ft. Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. Sean then receives
an ROTC scholarship at Michigan State University and becomes a
Registered Nurse and an Army officer. His first assignment as an
officer is in Germany as an Army Nurse at the large U.S. Army
Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany. While stationed there he is
deployed to U.N. peacekeeping duty in Kosovo where he accompanies
infantry patrols into the war torn civilian towns. It is on these
patrols that Sean discovers his true career calling- going into
harm's way with soldiers to provide world class medical care. To be
able to go into direct combat with U.S. troops Sean has to make the
difficult career decision to leave nursing and apply for a coveted
spot in the world renown U.S. Department of Defense Physician
Assistant program held at Ft. Sam Houston. He is accepted to the
program and graduates 2nd in his class. This soldier's story of
bravery and sacrifice is one that can represent the story of
thousands of American military men and women who have served in
Iraq and Afghanistan.
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