![]() ![]() He’ll wrap up his time in July, when he’ll return to civilian status for his pediatric fellowship. His primary duty now is a combination of clinical care and ensuring that all of his soldiers are ready to deploy. “When President Obama needs 4,000 people right now, people who can jump out of airplanes and start building new bases, he calls us,” Sigmon explains. He still hopes to complete a fellowship in pediatric cardiology, but in 2014 the Army sent him where they needed him: Fort Bragg and the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division. He served a residency in pediatrics for three years at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. So Sigmon left the service to follow his wife for two years before deciding to enter medical school in 2007. Naval Academy, was stationed on the West Coast. His wife, who majored in physics at the U.S. It turns out you’re actually surrounded by a lot of good people and just a few bad ones.”īy then, Sigmon was married. “It certainly shapes the way one sees the world. “It’s a strange and surreal experience,” Sigmon says of serving combat duty. ![]() Sigmon was deployed to combat twice, once for six months to Kosovo and later to Iraq for 16 months. He served as an infantry office for five years, and was stationed in Germany just after the September 11 attacks. From West Point, he then trained in Fort Benning, GA, learning how to jump from a plane while wearing and carrying 100-plus pounds. So he entered the academy and graduated with a major in physics. “We had the best turnout at the special projects talks,” he laughs, “because one of our guys spent the extra money to get a video taken of him jumping.”Ī recruiter from West Point convinced Sigmon that students there could be intellectually curious and well rounded. In those days, if you could convince a teacher to go with you, you could do anything.” For “special projects week,” what is now called Mini-Term, Sigmon and a small group went skydiving one winter at a site north of Durham. Chuck Horrell (also Class of ‘96) and I did the outdoors club thing. “I had been in Boy Scouts and I liked doing stuff outside. “It was still the tail end of the Gulf War,” Sigmon remembers about entering NCSSM. Or at least one common thread: jumping out of planes. Looking back, Sigmon can see a few common threads. Army Ranger School, and the Uniformed Services University’s Medical School and now serves as a brigade surgeon stationed at Fort Bragg, NC. But indeed, he attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, U.S. When he entered North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in 1994, becoming a career Army officer and physician wasn't exactly how Eric Sigmon ’96 saw his future. Summer Leadership and Research Program Handbook.Durham & Morganton Residential 11th-12th Grade.Parent Association Executive Committee (2022-2023). ![]()
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