Interview with Dr. Morgan

Military Service

Bill Morgan grew up in California and enlisted in the United States Navy on November 5, 1975. He attended Hospital Corps School and Field Medical Service School before being stationed at the First Marine Brigade, Third Marine Division, Kaneohe, HI. He served as a special operations corpsman/combat swimmer in 3rd Recon. While on active duty he participated in arctic survival and warfare exercises in Alaska. He also participated survival and warfare training in other extreme environments (mountain, jungle, marine and desert). When deployed to the far East, he provided medical aid to Vietnamese refugees in South East Asia and completed a "West Pac" with his Marine Recon unit on the maiden voyage of LHA-1, USS Tarawa.

Upon discharge from active duty in 1980 he joined the active reserves and served as a diver and corpsman for a Mobile Dive and Salvage Unit from 1980-1981. He was one of the divers who helped raise FDR's sunken presidential yacht, the USS Potomac.

From 1982 until 1990 HM1 Morgan served as the primary corpsman for a reserve platoon of Navy Frogmen from Naval Special Warfare Unit One in Vallejo, CA. He attended Special Operations Technician (8492) training in Coronado, CA . While in naval service he attended over ten special-warfare schools including parachute, navy dive (not BUDS), and FBI Crisis-Intervention schools.

Civilian:

After being discharged from active duty Dr. Morgan completed a Bachelor of Science Degree from The University of New York (now Excelsior College) and his Doctor of Chiropractic from Palmer College of Chiropractic-West. 

During the summer of 1985 Dr. Morgan served as a healthcare worker for three months in the jungles of Liberia in West Africa with the Christian relief agency Partners International. 

Dr. Morgan began practicing in March 1986.

From 1993-1998 he spent two mornings per week in a rural medical clinic working alongside medical doctors, physician's assistants, and nurse practitioners. This rural health clinic provided care for poor and underprivileged patients and patients from a local Indian reservation.

In February 1995, Dr. Morgan joined Central Valley Hospital 's Family Health Center-Specialty Clinic in Hanford, CA. Dr. Morgan treated patients part-time in this hospital's outpatient clinic working alongside medical specialists.

Dr. Morgan opened the Navy's first chiropractic clinic at a tertiary care center (National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda). He has served at Bethesda from September 1998 until present. At Bethesda he cares for our nation's heroes and our nation's leaders.

Dr. Morgan works at government health clinics in the nation's Capital providing care for our nation's leaders.

In 2003 he was selected to receive the Chiropractor of the Year award by the American Chiropractic Association.

Dr. Morgan has remained athletically active throughout his life: competing in triathlons, weight lifting, karate tournaments, marathons, and open water swim races. He has swum from Alcatraz Island to San Francisco five times, and has swum the seven miles from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oakland Bay Bridge. He has completed a technical climb of Half-dome in Yosemite, CA. He is a third-degree black belt in Kenpo Karate/Aki-Jujitsu and teaches martial arts at Chieftain Martial Arts Academy, Derwood Maryland.