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Understanding 9/11Remembering Vice Admiral John Mateczun– Navy Psychiatrist, Visionary And Stalwart Leader Of Military Medicine (1946-2022)
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by André Sobocinski
On November 7, 2022, Vice Adm. John Mateczun, the former Commander of Joint Task Force National Capital Region Medical and Deputy Surgeon General of the Navy died. He was 76.
Vice Adm. Mateczun charted a military career like none other.
Over the course of 38 years in uniform, he served as an U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technician with two combat tours in Vietnam (1967-1968, 1969-1970).
After obtaining a commission in the Navy Medical Corps in 1977 he rose to the rank of Vice Admiral becoming one of a select few non-Surgeons General and— to date—the only Navy psychiatrist to wear 3-stars.
And in 2007, Vice Adm. Mateczun was selected to lead the historic merger between the National NavalMedical Center (NNMC) and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC)—a job that was once likenedto combining the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox ball clubs and renaming Fenway Park “DerekJeter Stadium.”
On November 7, 2022, Vice Adm. John Mateczun, the former Commander of Joint Task Force National Capital Region Medical and Deputy Surgeon General of the Navy died. He was 76.
Vice Adm. Mateczun charted a military career like none other.
Over the course of 38 years in uniform, he served as an U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technician with two combat tours in Vietnam (1967-1968, 1969-1970).
After obtaining a commission in the Navy Medical Corps in 1977 he rose to the rank of Vice Admiral becoming one of a select few non-Surgeons General and— to date—the only Navy psychiatrist to wear 3-stars.
And in 2007, Vice Adm. Mateczun was selected to lead the historic merger between the National NavalMedical Center (NNMC) and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC)—a job that was once likenedto combining the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox ball clubs and renaming Fenway Park “DerekJeter Stadium.”
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