VA nominee served with PC dive unit

Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is out, and President Trump has nominated his personal physician, Navy admiral Ronny Jackson, to succeed Shulkin. Jackson is an active duty physician first hired by President Barack Obama in 2013 and retained by Trump. Jackson began his naval career at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Va., in 1995, where he completed an internship and went on to graduate with honors at the Navy’s Undersea Medical Officer Program. With a focus on undersea medicine, Jackson practiced at the Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center in Panama City, Fla., with an explosives unit in Italy, and a diving safety unit in Norfolk, Va., before returning to NMC Portsmouth to focus on emergency medicine. He also deployed to Iraq to work with a Surgical Shock Trauma Platoon. Robert Wilkie will serve as Acting VA Secretary until Dr. Jackson retires from naval service. (Source: Newsweek 03/28/18)