Alva Review-Courier -

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson was tending to grievously injured military personnel in Iraq when he was summoned to Washington to interview for a job he barely knew existed. He didn't see a way to get there.

"I thought this was it — this is where the road stops," he told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal this month.

Instead, Jackson managed to catch a ride on a transport plane that steered the Levelland, Texas, native toward some of the loftiest corridors of power.

Jackson's journey has wound through the White House and across the globe, treating the blisters, stomach ailments and more...