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Jackson became part of the White House Medical Unit. In the mid-2000s, under President George W. Soon thereafter, he deployed to Iraq to lead resuscitative medicine efforts on the battlefield for a combat Surgical Shock Trauma Platoon. Jackson would later complete his residency in emergency medicine, finishing at the top of his class. With unique training in undersea medicine, he utilized his talents while assigned to locations ranging from Panama City, Florida, to Sigonella, Italy.
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Following graduation from medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch, he began active-duty service in the United States Navy. After working as a roustabout in the West Texas oilfields, he paid his way through undergraduate school at Texas A&M University. Ronny Jackson was raised in Levelland, Texas, where he learned the value of family, faith, and hard work. I was the first person he saw every morning and the last person he saw every evening when he went to bed. I’d walk out, they’d walk in, and his day would start. I’d walk out through the outer Oval Office and the chief of staff, national security advisor, and even the CIA briefer would be standing there, waiting to get in and talk to him. He’d say, “Walk with me.” So I’d walk him to the Oval Office, and we’d talk about everything.
#Hold the line tv#
Did you see this or that?” He was always asking me about things on TV and what was going on, from Iran to Stormy Daniels.
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President Trump would poke his head into my office or I’d walk out, and we would say, “Good morning. He’d get up at five o’clock in the morning and would be watching TV, tweeting, making phone calls, and doing all types of other tasks. The president was completing tasks two to three hours before anybody else showed up in the West Wing to work. I’d be the first person he’d see in the morning. It was rarely medical, to be honest with you it was whatever was going on in the news. I walked into work, and I was already in the Oval Office talking to President Trump. I would talk to the president before the chief of staff even saw the president in the morning. A behind-the-scenes political memoir written by a prominent White House physician.