There's a new Captain in the H-o-u-s-e-e-e!! (or in the Heezy as our President says). Who would have thought that the officer I voted most likely to be the recipient of an EEO filing would survive to make O6?

CAPT (P) R. Douglas Shepherd will put on his 4th bar 1 July 2009. Unbelievable! There is some justice in the world, some spark of sanity. The PHS's most decorated junior officer is now its newest senior officer. Mary, let the planning begin - for his big pay raise.

The hardest working dental officer in the Corps who still manages to have fun has reached a huge milestone. Doug is the kind of person who, while still in dental school and doing a summer internship at FCI Ashland, hit the Chief Dental Officer in the face with a birthday cake.
Yet despite the antics, he has always been the highest producing dentist at his facility.

Congratulations on a well-deserved promotion!

PS to Doug: Hope this was good enough. Make the check out to Teresa - I make the money, she spends it.