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   Paducah Sun    
   April 30, 2018    
   Jackson understands what veterans such as White are going through because has been a combat medic in the field treating severely injured warriors. He served in Taqaddum, Iraq, as an emergency physician in charge of resuscitative medicine for a forward-deployed surgical shock trauma platoon. He hasÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   The Federalist    
   April 29, 2018    
   Jackson maintains his innocence, however, and appears to be telling the truth. Tester, by contrast, appears to have slandered the professional and personal reputation of a man who served in the Navy for twenty-three years, including as the physician in charge of resuscitative medicine at Camp Taqaddum,Ãâà...     
    
    
 
  
 
 
   
  
   
   Charleston Gazette-Mail    
   April 27, 2018    
   Jackson understands what veterans such as White are going through because has been a combat medic in the field treating severely injured warriors. He served in Taqaddum, Iraq, as an emergency physician in charge of resuscitative medicine for a forward-deployed surgical shock trauma platoon. He hasÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   New York Times    
   April 27, 2018    
   He was stationed at Al Taqaddum air base, a key hub wedged between Falluja and Ramadi, where he worked with a shock trauma platoon as the physician in charge of resuscitative medicine. In 2005, Al Taqaddum was one of three bases in one of the more volatile parts of Anbar Province that had such aÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Bowling Green Daily News    
   April 26, 2018    
   Jackson understands what veterans such as White are going through because he has been a combat medic in the field treating severely injured warriors. He served in Taqaddum, Iraq, as an emergency physician in charge of resuscitative medicine for a forward-deployed surgical shock trauma platoon.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Charleston Post Courier    
   April 26, 2018    
   In this April 16, 2018, photo, U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, M.D., sits with Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., chairman of the Veteran's Affairs Committee, before their meeting on Capitol Hilin Washington. Jackson is President Donald Trump's nominee to be the next Secretary of Veterans Affairs.     
    
    
 
  
 
 
   
  
   
   The State Journal-Register    
   April 25, 2018    
   And yet on their watch, Jason White and countless other veterans fell through the cracks. Jackson understands what veterans such as White are going through because has been a combat medic in the field treating severely injured warriors. He served in Taqaddum, Iraq, as an emergency physician in charge of resuscitativeÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   WRAL.com    
   April 25, 2018    
   Before serving as a White House physician, Jackson had deployed as an emergency medicine physician to Taqaddum, Iraq, during the Iraq War. The Senate only received paperwork from the Trump administration formalizing Jackson's nomination last week. Committee Democrats met briefly MondayÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Telegraph.co.uk    
   April 25, 2018    
   Before serving as a White House physician, Dr Jackson had deployed as an emergency medicine physician to Taqaddum, Iraq, during the Iraq war. But Dr Jackon's hearing has been postponed after the Senate veteran affairs committee was made aware of serious concerns about his background. The NewÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Napa Valley Register    
   April 22, 2018    
   The blood was often still warm from its donors when the surgeons of Al-Taqaddum in central Iraq pumped it into the blown-up bodies of the wounded—as much as 40 pints into a single patient. Most of it bled back out onto the hospital floor, but it kept U.S. troops alive while they waited their turn for surgery.     
    
    
  
  
   
   The Daily Herald    
   April 20, 2018    
   The blood was often still warm from its donors when the surgeons of Al-Taqaddum in central Iraq pumped it into the blown-up bodies of the wounded — as much as 40 pints into a single patient. Most of it bled back out onto the hospital floor, but it kept U.S. troops alive while they waited their turn for surgery.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Stars and Stripes    
   April 19, 2018    
   The blood was often still warm from its donors when the surgeons of Al-Taqaddum in central Iraq pumped it into the blown-up bodies of the wounded — as much as 40 pints into a single patient. Most of it bled back out onto the hospital floor, but it kept U.S. troops alive while they waited their turn for surgery.     
    
    
  
  
   
   FEDweek    
   April 6, 2018    
   Jackson also served at Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Va., and Camp Lejeune, N.C., from where he deployed to a shock-trauma platoon at Taqaddum, Iraq, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was appointed as White House Physician in 2006. If confirmed, he would take the helm of the VA, a sprawlingÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   The Hill    
   March 30, 2018    
   ... according to his Navy biography. In 2005, Jackson deployed as part of the Surgical Shock Trauma Platoon in Taqaddum, Iraq. There, he served as the emergency physician in charge of resuscitative medicine. His bio lists several awards, including the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit,Ãâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   The Boston Globe    
   March 30, 2018    
   He is also an emergency medicine expert, using those skills during a deployment in Taqaddum, Iraq. Advertisement. □Why does he seem recognizable? You've seen him before because, decked out in his Navy uniform, he made a splash in mid-January with his full-throated endorsement of Trump's healthÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Task & Purpose    
   March 28, 2018    
   He's qualified in submarine and hyperbaric medicine, and later in his career deployed as an emergency medicine physician to a surgical shock trauma unit in Taqaddum, Iraq, according to his official bio. While deployed, in 2006, he was selected to be a White House physician. He's since led the ExecutiveÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Voice of America    
   March 28, 2018    
   He served as an emergency doctor specializing in resuscitating troops while deployed to Iraq in 2005 with the Surgical Shock Trauma Platoon in Taqaddum, Iraq. While Jackson was still in Iraq, the President George W. Bush administration selected him to be a White House physician under Air ForceÃâà...     
    
    
 
  
 
 
   
  
   
   WTVA    
   March 23, 2018    
   Jackson began his medical career in 1995 when he graduated from the medical school at the University of Texas. Jackson was deployed to Iraq in 2005 with the the Surgical Shock Trauma Platoon in Taqaddum, Iraq, and was named White House physician in 2006 while still in Iraq. He was appointedÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   CNN    
   March 23, 2018    
   ... from the medical school at the University of Texas. Jackson was deployed to Iraq in 2005 with the the Surgical Shock Trauma Platoon in Taqaddum, Iraq, and was named White House physician in 2006 while still in Iraq. He was appointed physician to the President by former President Barack Obama.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Utusan Malaysia    
   February 27, 2018    
   Pemangku Raja rasmi bangunan tambahan Mahaad Taqaddum Maarif. Yatimin Abdullah. PEMANGKU Raja Kelantan, Dr. Tengku Muhammad Fa-iz Petra (tengah) berkenan mencemar duli menyempurnakan perasmian bangunan tambahan Mahaad Taqaddum Maarif, Pasir Tumboh, hari ini. - UTUSANÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Business Insider    
   February 22, 2018    
   Marine Corps Sgt. Josh Greathouse scans the area during a perimeter patrol in Taqaddum, Iraq, March 21, 2016. Greathouse is a team leader assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force Crisis Response, for US Central Command.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Rudaw    
   February 20, 2018    
   An Italian soldier and a US Marine deployed in Iraq, demonstrate how to clear a corner using the buddy method during the Desert Battalion training at Al Taqaddum, Iraq, on February 12, 2018. Photo: Spc. Shannon Westpfahl | US Army. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-AbadiÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Task & Purpose    
   February 6, 2018    
   Decisions about how and when to redeploy contingents of several hundred Marines at Al Taqaddum and Al Asad will likely be made later this spring. In addition to security elements at each base sourced from the crisis response force, the Marines maintain smaller colonel-led advisory elements in eachÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Rudaw    
   February 5, 2018    
   US Navy Corpsman teach Iraqi soldiers one way to carry a wounded soldier during training at al-Taqaddum, Iraq in January. Photo: Spc. Shannon Westpfahl/US Army. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — The Iraqi government has confirmed earlier reports that the US military presence in the country will be drawnÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Hi-Desert Star    
   June 10, 2017    
   Christian Cabaniss, the commander of Task Force Al Taqaddum and deployed in support of Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve, speaks with Italian police officials about the current and future training plans for the Iraqi police and military forces on Al-Taqaddum Air Base, Iraq, April 27.     
    
    
  
  
   
   WUSA9.com    
   December 31, 1999    
   He did stints in Florida, Italy and Virginia before being deployed in 2005 to Iraq, where he was an emergency medical doctor at a trauma unit in Taqaddum. He began work at the White House the following year. Jackson dismissed concerns about his experience this month in an interview with the LubbockÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   FreightWaves    
   December 31, 1999    
   I was in Iraq from 2004-5, driving from Camp TQ [Al-Taqaddum Airbase] to Fallujah every night, and in Afghanistan in 2006.” While Graff was already a top performing truck driver who had won a Fleet Driver of the Year award at Martin, it may have been in Iraq and Afghanistan where he fully developed hisÃâà...     
    
    
  
  
   
   Axios    
   December 31, 1999    
   Served in a forward deployed Surgical Shock Trauma Platoon in Taqaddum, Iraq. White House physician for second term of George W. Bush, both terms of Barack Obama. Jackson does not have reported experience running an agency equivalent to the size of the VA, the second largest agency in the federal government.     
    
    
  
  
   
   Military Times    
   December 31, 1999    
   He is an Iraq war veteran who deployed as an emergency medicine physician with the Surgical Shock Trauma Platoon in Taqaddum, Iraq, in 2005. He served as the White House doctor for Trump and also former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, directing health care for not only theÃâà...     
    
   
  
   
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