MAJ Montgomery Granger

Army Reserve | Health Services Administration

Dates of Service: Oct 1986 - Dec 2008

RETIRED

105% Complete

75 Endorsements

618 Contacts

Influence Score: 606,947
228 out of 865,840 Veterans

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Commissioning Source: OCS

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Bio

Christian, husband, father, son, friend; retired educator of 36 years; retired military of 22 years. Author, "Saving Grace at Guantanamo Bay," a memoir on my service at Gitmo as the ranking US Army Medical Department officer with JDOG, JTF 160, FEB-JUN 2002. http://sbprabooks.com/montgomeryjgranger/ Also, narrator, "Heroes of GITMO," a short YouTube documentary based on my book. Hooah! <><

Military Experiences

Dec 1999 - Dec 2008

Field Medical Assistant

800th MP BDE, 200th MPCOM, USARC | Uniondale, NY

Jan 1992 - Nov 1999

Company Commander/Staff Officer/Various Positions

8th MED BDE, 3rd MEDCOM (MCDS), USARC | Rocky Point, NY

Jan 1990 - Dec 1991

Medical Platoon Leader

42nd ID, New York ARNG, MILPAC Region I, USARNG | Freeport, NY

Oct 1986 - Aug 1987

Combat Medic

40th ID CAB HHC, 40th ID CAB, 40th ID, California ARNG | Santa Ana, CA

Combat Medic with HHC. PLT SGT, “Mal,” was Combat EFMB from Vietnam War. Hooah!

Deployments

(1 year, 11 months)

Sep 2005 - Nov 2005

Kuwait

Coordinated retrograde movement back to the U.S. for my unit. Trans officer went home on emergency leave. Lucky me!

Dec 2004 - Sep 2005

Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)

Field Medical Assistant: Coordinated medical, preventive medical and environmental services for detention operations. Abu Ghraib, Baghdad, Camp Bucca, Ashraf.

Feb 2003 - Jun 2003

Fort Dix, NJ

Trained for no deployment, thanks to Turkey, who voted NOT to allow U.S. forces to travel through their country in order to attack Iraq from the north, but still accepted $7 billion in aid.

Feb 2002 - Jun 2002

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

1 Endorsement

Ranking U.S. Army Medical Department officer with the Joint Detainee Operations Group, Task Force 160, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - helped take care of bad guys.