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Dustin G.
![I went to West Point for college, and your grades are the only thing that are your own, everything else is part of a team. Your entire time in the military, nothing you do is for you, nothing you do is about yourself. Then you get out of the military and you try to integrate back into the civilian world, but you quickly realize that nobody else is thinking that everything they do is for a team - it is just for them - and you have to start realizing that [your] actions are really only going to affect [you].](img/vets/vet_dusting_company.jpg)
![I had this backpack on my first deployment. [This] photo is my second deployment and the backpack survives. It was dirty. I used to carry my ammunition in there. I used to carry health supplies for when someone got injured. I carried war stuff in there.](img/vets/vet_dusting_backpack_dirty.jpg)
![This is the [same] backpack in grad school. It is very clean. This backpack has been through a lot. I walk around with it all the time and I think, people have no idea what this backpack has been through.](img/vets/vet_dusting_backpack_clean.jpg)
Dustin is a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point. After his military service, he completed medical school. As a physician and a veteran, Dustin wants to raise awareness of the unique needs and experiences of OEF/OIF veterans among VA health care providers. He is currently in his second year of residency in orthopedics.
