[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 14]
[Senate]
[Page 20140]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            TRIBUTE TO LIEUTENANT GENERAL PATRICIA D. HOROHO

  Mr. INOUYE. Mr. President, today I rise to congratulate LTG Patricia 
D. Horoho on becoming the U.S. Army's 43rd Surgeon General. This is a 
momentous time for military medicine, with two historic firsts for the 
U.S. Army and for the Department of Defense. On December 5, 2011, 
General Horoho became the first woman and the first nurse to assume 
command of the U.S. Army's Medical Command. Then, just 2 days later, 
she became the Army's 43rd Army Surgeon General, making history again 
by becoming the first woman and the first nurse in the Department of 
Defense to be sworn in as Surgeon General.
  Lieutenant General Horoho earned her bachelor of science degree from 
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1982. She received 
her master of science degree as a clinical trauma nurse specialist from 
the University of Pittsburgh. Her military education includes 
graduating from the Army's Command and General Staff College and the 
Industrial College of the Armed Forces, where she earned a second 
master of science degree in national resource strategy.
  Lieutenant General Horoho has earned numerous civilian and military 
awards and recognitions throughout her distinguished career. Her 
civilian accolades include recognition in 1993 as one of the top 100 
nurses in the State of North Carolina. She was selected as the USO's 
Woman of the Year in 2009. Most recently, the University of North 
Carolina School of Nursing selected her as the Alumna of the Year on 
November 30, 2011.
  Some of Lieutenant General Horoho's previous military assignments 
include Deputy Surgeon General; Chief of the Army Nurse Corps; 
Commander of the Western Regional Medical Command in Fort Lewis, WA; 
Commander of the Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, WA; Commander 
of the Walter Reed Health Care System in Washington, DC.; and Commander 
of the DeWitt Health Care Network in Fort Belvoir, VA.
  Lieutenant General Horoho brings extensive leadership, education, and 
experience to her new position as the 43rd Army Surgeon General. I 
applaud the many accomplishments which have brought her to the highest 
level of rank and responsibility in military medicine, and I wish her 
success as she begins her new position.

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