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two-year battle with cancer. Jack will be remembered for
his engaging personality, as a father and husband who
loved his family and for his considerable talents in many
facets of agriculture, entertainment and the business
world. Happy trails to you, Jack.
Lieutenant Colonel Sam Barringer, DVM, a commissioned
preventive medicine officer in the U.S. Air Force
Reserves, led a team to help re-establish animal agriculture
in Afghanistan. The impact has been nothing short of
tremendous.
“Our mission was to help reinvigorate animal agriculture
in the area so that families could once again be self-sufficient,”
said Barringer, manager of livestock veterinary operations
with Pfizer Animal Health in Monument,
Colorado. Barringer was deployed to Afghanistan as a public
health adviser in November 2006. His work with the animal
agriculture program started taking shape in early 2007.
Barringer and his team presented a three-day training course
for 45 Afghan veterinarians. He said the training was
intense, breaks were rare and participants were very attentive. He
noted that the program is not a typical military project, as it is a
joint effort of the U.S. military, the host nation and an American
corporation. Pfizer Animal Health responded to an official
request from the U.S. military by providing products for the treatment
of animals involved in the program.
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