John Sexton spent 37 years successful a Naval azygous achieving the fertile of large successful the U.S. Marine Corps and commandant successful the Navy. He enlisted successful the Navy successful 1967 to be the Naval Academy Prep School earlier attending and graduating from Annapolis successful 1972.
Major Sexton served successful each 3 combat arms arsenic a Marine Corps serviceman from 1972 until 1983. He commanded 2 artillery batteries and an infantry institution earlier serving arsenic a vessel battalion occurrence enactment coordinator. He earned a master’s grade successful counseling science from the University of Northern Colorado, and a master’s grade and a PhD successful objective science from the California School of Professional Psychology.
He became a Navy objective scientist successful 1983 and served successful varied assignments astir the world. CDR Sexton was 1 of the archetypal graduates of the Congressionally mandated Department of Defense Psychopharmacology Demonstration Project, successful which helium completed astir 75% of the aesculapian schoolhouse courses astatine the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine, followed by a one-year residency astatine Walter Reed Army Medical Center, some successful Bethesda, Maryland. He was assigned to Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, Virginia; and successful February 1995, became the nation’s archetypal autarkic practitioner prescribing psychologist. He continued to service arsenic a prescribing scientist with tours astatine Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton successful Oceanside, California, and Naval Medical Center, San Diego.
CDR Sexton made much than 80 nationalist and state-level presentations to intelligence associations and authorities legislators and was featured successful nationally broadcast vigor and tv programs. In summation to his galore subject awards, CDR Sexton received 2 American Psychological Association Presidential citations.
He retired aft astir 32 years of work arsenic a Naval serviceman and past served arsenic a unit scientist astatine the Counseling and Psychological Services of the University of California, San Diego, wherever helium co-founded the San Diego Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. In summation to his nationalist interaction connected science and termination prevention, Dr. Sexton helped our assemblage by serving for a twelve years connected the Coronado SAFE committee of directors.
VOL. 113, NO. 3 - Jan. 18, 2023
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