I read omewhere that he had taken extensive extra training in firearms. My son was a medic, but took extra training in firearms. Felt like he might be called upon to protect his patients and wanted to have the training to do so.
I can see the medics wanting to be fully trained as they are on the front lines, but a doctor? I cannot feature the AF doctors I knew taking any opetional gun training and most didn’t even want to do the mandatory firing range — then the AF said only people headed for combat and none of the Medical Center doctors went back.
A AF psychiatrist doing gun training gives me the creeps.