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As a Naval officer, Dr. Tumialán was obliged to follow the path the Navy set for him and his neurosurgery plans were temporarily altered to accommodate the needs of the Navy. Following six months of submarine school in Groton, Connecticut, and dive school at the Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center in Panama City, Florida, he received orders to serve as the Diving Medical Officer (DMO) assigned to Naval Special Warfare Unit One in Guam. With the events of 9/11, the sleepy outpost of Guam transformed into a busy center of operations for the Global War on Terror. Dr. Tumialán spent the next two years supporting missions for various Navy SEAL platoons around Southeast Asia and was tasked with doing everything from running a recompression chamber aboard a submarine to setting up battalion aid stations in jungles. He received a Naval and Marine Corps Commendation Medal for service in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and a Navy Humanitarian Medal for the search and maritime rescue..

Primary location: Scottsdale United States