How one veteran is helping his community heal

When he joined the Navy at 18, Skylar Wilcoxson became a corpsman, focusing on surgical technician training with a specialty in complex neurosurgery. He was fascinated by the brain. But during a nine-month deployment in Kandahar, Afghanistan, he was in the operating room for all types of surgery and all types of physical injuries. Wilcoxson knew he wanted to continue this work when he got out… Source

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