First Deployment
Let me say at the outset that it’s my wife of 17 years, Katie, who is going to Afghanistan. She joined the Navy Reserves right out of high school in 1985 and other than a few years during Law School, she’s been in the whole time. Last year she was promoted to Chief Petty Officer which I have since learned is no small achievement. Somewhere in the back of my mind I knew there was a chance she might get mobilized but when it actually happened I was
Bruce Rogow
Bruce Rogow is Director of Television Operations for Public Broadcaster KPBS in San Diego and is in his 15th year with the station. He also volunteers as Chairman of the Board of the San Diego Renewable Energy Society helping to promote all forms of renewable energy and energy efficiency in the San Diego region. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Business Administration from San Diego State University. He and his wife, Chief Petty Officer Kathryn Deininger, have been married 17 years and this...
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Craig Boyd Garner
Craig is an attorney and health care consultant, specializing in issues surrounding modern American health care and the ways it should be managed in its current climate of reform. Between 2002 and 2011, Craig was the Chief Executive Officer at Coast Plaza Hospital in Norwalk, California. He currently serves on the advisory board for the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Western University of Health Sciences, on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Opera, and the Board of Visitors of Seaver...
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