In conjunction with my current fellowship at CDC, I joined the US Public Health Service, one of the 7 uniformed services along with the Marines, Navy, Army, Air Force, Coast Guard, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and serve in the Ready Reserve of the Commissioned Corps during these two training years. The Public Health Service (along with the last two of the others listed) is an unarmed service. At the end of a training month for my fellowship, those of use who joined the PHS had a "pinning" ceremony to which the Surgeon General came to perform the actual pinning (act of putting our military rank pin on our lapel).
Our group of newly PHS commissioned corps officers saying our oath, led by the Surgeon General:
My moment - initially the Surgeon General ceremonially salutes me to which I respond with a salute
Then he "pins" me:
Then I, as a junior officer, formally salute him
In this group picture at the end, I'm standing with three other people in my EIS class who are Emory alumni - the two women from 2003 and the man from 2005. One of the women even took a course from my dad!
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