“Why did you fall asleep at the wheel?” My answer: It’s a pitfall of being a juggler in the largest ongoing circus in the world—the Covid-19 pandemic.
Johnnie Gilpen
Johnnie Gilpen, a 2019 War Horse fellow and 2017 Tillman scholar, is a former U.S. Navy Fleet Marine Force hospital corpsman with 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines, 2nd Marine Division, at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. He now lives in Union City, Oklahoma, and is currently an emergency medicine physician assistant in the Greater Oklahoma City area.
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The Circus Is Coming to Town
As the United States grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, a former corpsman trained in infectious disease epidemiology understands what’s at stake.
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You Have Not Seen The Last Of These Marines
After starting a new chapter in his life, a former corpsman realized the men he lost 20 years before were much more than a memory.
