#VeteranOfTheDay Rodney Odgers

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Rodney “Rod” Odgers.

Rod served in the Navy from 1954 to 1958 as a hospital corpsman, second class. After working as a medic in psychiatric services at the naval hospital in Oakland, California, he was hand-picked as the leading psychiatric technician for a pioneer program at the Yokosuka Naval Hospital in Japan. There he served for two years treating more than a thousand Navy and Marine Corps personnel with post traumatic stress disorder in the Far East & on ships from the 7^th Fleet.

When Rod left the Navy, he graduated from San Francisco State University and completed graduate studies. He taught elementary school for 45 years in the San Francisco Unified School District until his retirement, focusing his attention on disadvantaged children. He was recently featured on the Contra Costa County, California, Veterans’ Voices talk show. Later this month he will appear by live link at the annual meetings of the Common Roots Conference in the UK.

Thank you for your service, Rod!

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Graphic By Kierra Willis: Kierra Willis is a Graphic Communication Major at the University of Maryland University College. She currently has an AAS in Graphic Design and Visual Communications.