Lt. Dan Driscoll mobilized to Walter Reed

Lt. Dan Driscoll mobilized to Walter Reed
By Nancy White / nwhite@cnc.com
Fri May 15, 2009, 10:10 AM EDT

There are few among us who can imagine leaving our home, our families and our jobs for a year.

But, for Cohasset resident Dan Driscoll — Lieutenant Colonel Dan Driscoll of the US Army — that is exactly what will happen come June.

Driscoll, who has served in both the Navy and Army reserves since 1988, is heading to Washington, D.C. to be stationed at the Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital. There, as a member of the JAG Corps, he will provide legal assistance to wounded soldiers to help ensure they obtain the benefits they are entitled to receive.

This deployment is the latest installment in Driscoll’s commitment to the armed service and country.

“If you can believe it, I was commissioned during the Carter administration,” in 1980 to be exact, Driscoll said. For the next eight years he was a naval aviator – a backseat F-14 operator. After his eight years of active duty, he joined the Navy reserves and enrolled in law school.

In 2001, he was recruited to the JAG (judge advocate general) Corps, the legal arm of the US military.

“If you want to fly jets the place to do it is the Navy, if you want to be a lawyer the place to do it in the Army,” Driscoll said. In one fell swoop he went from being an aviator to JAG lawyer and from the Navy to the Army. He still proudly wears a set of wings indicating his naval service on his Army uniform.
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Lt. Dan Driscoll mobilized to Walter Reed