ST. LOUIS - The man who served as the leader of the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force will head to Kuwait to serve his country early next month.
Dr. Alex Garza will deploy to Kuwait as a member of the Army Reserves, where he will serve as an emergency room physician on a military base there. He will be deployed for four months.
Garza has been in the Army Reserves for 20 years and is still active duty.
"I joined the Army Reserves when I was a second-year resident in emergency medicine," he said. "I do believe in service to others, that was really the reason I joined. I’m deploying with a group of individuals whom I’ve never met to go and staff a hospital."
This isn't his first time going to Kuwait.
"Back in 2003 and 2004, I deployed out of the same camp that I’m returning to. That was the very beginning of the Iraq war," he said. "So we were there at the initial part of the war. It was carved out of the desert, not a lot of amenities. Since then, it’s been a built up military base and fixed hospital."
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