Zachary J. Kitchen
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Zachary J. Kitchen

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Zack Kitchen has had a diverse life to say the least. The third son of ten children in a poor farming family, he found that there was no money for college so , at the age of 17, he enlisted in the Marine Corps. A year later he earned an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He always dreamed of flying so, after graduating with a B.S. in English Literature from the Academy, he went to flight school and flew for the Navy for five years as an NFO or "goose" (as the position has been known since the film "Top Gun." After fulfilling his active duty obligation, Zack received a Navy scholarship to attend medical school and graduated from the University of Michigan School of Medicine in 2000. He trained at the Walter Reed Medical Center and the Bethesda National Naval Medical Center for internship, residency, and fellowship. His training completed, Zack deployed to Iraq with a Forward Resuscitative Surgical System team and, often under fire, gave life and limb saving surgical and resuscitative treatment to American military, allied military, civilians, and enemy combatants alike. He holds the Combat Medic Badge from the Army and the Combat Action Ribbon from the Marines. Returning home, Zack decided that he'd served his country enough and was missing his two daughters growing up, so he left service and joined a small private practice in the sleepy coastal town of New Bern, North Carolina. As a transplanted Yankee, it was a bit of a culture shock, but he can now say "Y'all" and "Fixin' to" in proper context. Recently diagnosed with a genetic heart defect, Idiopathic Hypertrophic Subaortic Stenosis, he has been working hard to fulfill one of his greatest dreams, being a novelist. Every moment is a gift and he strives to make the most of each and every one.
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