Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.

Imagine you're in some third world hellhole that our government has sent you to.

You're highly specialized.

You can handle any situation.

And your job in particular is to keep your teammates alive.

And not just from the perspective of, say, planning an attack or setting up a defense.

I'm talking about their day-to-day lives, treating them for

stab wounds, gunshot wounds, blunt force trauma, tropical diseases. Oh, and by the way,

you've also gotten into the local villages and you're treating them as well, the

people that have never been

inoculated. Who I'm talking about right now are Green Beret medics. They are some of the most

fascinating special operations people on the face of planet because, believe it or not,

the training that you have to go through to become a Greenberry medic equals that of a physician assistant.

And probably a little bit more because of the environments that you go to.

Today, we're going to talk about one of these guys that honorably served, that retired, and was working actually at a university to receive his physician assistant degree.

But you know what?

He'll never walk across the stage because he's a homicide victim now.

Coming to you from the beautiful campus of Jacksonville State University, I'm Joseph Scott

Morgan and this is bodybacks.

Dave, I've got to tell you, I've, for a long time, I thought that I wanted to go into medicine.

I really did.

I thought that that's what I wanted to do.

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