OKLAHOMA CITY
An Oklahoma State University graduate has been honored as the U.S. Army’s top veterinarian.
Capt. Robert Hawley, a 2003 veterinary medicine graduate, is stationed at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, where he cares for military animals and inspects much of the food produced for troops in the Middle East.
He received the Army Veterinary Corps Above and Beyond Award, which names the top animal doctor among the Army’s corps of nearly 400 veterinarians.
“This has been the best job I could have ever hoped for,” Hawley, 38, said. “I can’t imagine doing anything else.”
A native of Prairie Grove, Ark., Hawley was an Army enlistee for eight years before being accepted into OSU’s college of veterinary medicine. He qualified for an Army scholarship for health professionals and upon graduation joined the Army as a captain.
Hawley jokes that he is both an Army veterinarian and an Army veteran, making him a “vet vet,” or “vet squared.”
