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Pediatric Nurse Practitioners rarely have a background that directly ties to a lost WWII submarine ‘On Eternal Patrol,’ but such is the case for Navy Lt. Brad O’Keefe.
As a young hospital corpsman and diving medical technician, the Nampa, Idaho native was part of a team that located the wreck of USS Lagarto (SS-371) in the Gulf of Thailand in 2005, presumed sunk in 1945 during an engagement with an Imperial Japanese Navy convoy.
From that hidden undersea depth of 230 feet to an accessible shore based locale, O’Keefe epitomizes the operational range and great lengths which Navy Medicine can – and does - support active duty, past and present, with patient centered care.