Col. Fred Lough returns to service
MCPO Ret. In TN sends us a link to an article about Colonel Frederick Lough, a 64-year-old cardiac surgeon who has returned to the Army Reserve leaving George Washington University Hospital and hearing the call of duty;
As a member of the Army Reserves, Lough was recently deployed twice to Afghanistan and performed hundreds of surgeries in tents. Last year, he was part of a Forward Surgical Team (FTS) close to the fighting near the Pakistani border providing support for the 173 Airborne Brigade.
“We were being mortared and rocketed on a daily basis. Casualties and fatalities occurred on our base,” said Lough.
He was there when the base was severely damaged by a fuel truck bomb, which destroyed the surgical unit. It was rebuilt in hours.
Colonel Lough will be assigned to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD – otherwise known on this blog as the happiest place on earth.
Category: Real Soldiers, Walter Reed
Thank you Colonel for your selfless dedication and years of service, may the good Lord bless you and keep you.
God Bless him!
A 70 year old M.D. from N.C. was called up a few years ago-http://wfae.org/post/70-year-old-concord-doctor-called-iraq
Also, I can’t find a link for this one, but I know that there was a Doc who was over 70 who was with the Mississippi guard in Iraq.
An inspiration, still serving when most his age are planning their retirement. May God bless him and protect him.
Col. Lough still lives by the motto- “Duty, Honor, Country.”
Thank you for your service, COL Lough!
Balls of steel.
He was at my Base in Afghanistan (I am a civilian now working in A-stan)–was there for the truck bomb. All those folks at Charlie Med were bad a$$ but I had no idea what he gave up to be there in that dung hole.
Wow–awesome.