Army PA Wanted to Gain Trauma Experience
Capt. Cory Jenkins, 28, a graduate of Brigham Young University and the physician assistant program at A.T. Still University, was killed on Tuesday in Afghanistan along with three other men when their Striker armored vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device. According to The Arizona Republic, Jenkins chose to be an Army PA to gain intense experience treating trauma injuries.
"He wanted to be in trauma. He said, 'You can't get any better experience than in the military,'" Stanley Jenkins (Cory's father) recalled Thursday afternoon in front of his home.
Jenkins, from Mesa, Arizona, was the father of a nine-week-old daughter.
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