Not to pick nits, but Physicians/Surgeons don’t enlist.
He will be commissioned as an officer.
You picked the words out of my mouth.
Not only will he be commissioned, he’ll probably have a fairly high rank right off the bat. I joined the Army as a Captain because of my PhD; going through basic training at the same time as I did was an MD who was commissioned as a Major because he’d run a private practice for about 7 years prior to joining the Army.
And kudos, or should I say, bravo zulu to the doctor for deciding to join the Navy.
Although with Obamacare coming up the pike, military medicine will no doubt look like a more attractive career choice for many medical personnel.
I saw that too. It’s a shame that we don’t have a higher percentage of citizens who served in the military. You see evidence of that all the time.