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Navy admiral holds up his right hand to administer an oath while standing behind a lectern on an auditorium stage.

Graduation Ceremony

Vice Adm. (Dr.) Forrest Faison, then the Navy surgeon general and chief of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, administers an oath to the graduating class of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences at a ceremony in Washington, May 18, 2019. More than 200 USU military medical students and graduate nursing students will be graduating early in 2020 to support their colleagues in the U.S. military health system amid the global coronavirus pandemic.

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