Kirk completed SEAL training at 19 years-old and served as a SEAL during the first Gulf War. He left the SEAL community in 1994 to pursue a college education. He then re-entered the US Navy to attend the military’s medical school in Bethesda, Maryland and was commissioned as an Officer in the Navy in 2000. After completing medical school, internship, and residency, Kirk returned to the SEAL teams as the physician for the West Coast SEAL teams. The realities of 8 years of nearly continuous com...