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Canadian Military PAs Serve Afghanistan, Too

Published May 11, 2009 10:13 AM by Michael Gerchufsky

This article from newsdurhamregion.com, the home page for seven newspapers in the Durham, Ontario, area, reminds us that PAs in the U.S. military aren't the only ones serving in Afghanistan.

Bearing gifts of scorpion keychains and volcanic rock, a Canadian soldier met with his Bowmanville pen-pals after returning from Kandahar.

Officer First Class Derrick Nearing, a physician assistant who just finished his second eight-month tour of duty in Afghanistan, attended Dr. Ross Tilley Public School recently to personally meet the students who wrote him while he was overseas.

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