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Warriors In Their Own Words | First Person War Stories

Dr. Jon Heavey: Battalion Surgeon in Iraq

Warriors In Their Own Words | First Person War Stories

Robert Kirk

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4.6675 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Content Warning: this episode includes graphic descriptions of wounds and combat, as well as strong language. Dr. Jon Heavey is an emergency room physician on the front lines of the battle against COVID, who began his medical career as a battalion surgeon with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq. Read Jon’s 2012 article “An Unbearable Price” in the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine for more about his service as battalion surgeon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Ken Harbaugh, host of Warriors in Their Own Words. In partnership with the Honor Project, we've brought this podcast back at a time when our

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nation needs these stories more than ever.

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Warriors in their own words is our attempt to present an unvarnished, unsanitized truth of what we have asked of those who defend

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this nation. Thank you for listening, and by doing so honoring those who have served.

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Today, we're hearing from Dr. John Hevey, an emergency room physician who began his medical

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career as a battalion surgeon with 101st airborne division in Iraq.

1:32.7

Even for a podcast all about war stories, John's stories are intense.

1:37.7

You'll hear some graphic descriptions of wounds and of combat, as well as some strong language.

1:47.8

If that's not something you want to hear, you might want to skip this episode. You know, we were in Iraq with the first 502nd infantry on her first Airborne,

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