Doctors called to active duty

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)– Veterans Day is also a time to honor service members in the reserves many of whom wear more than one hat taking on civilian jobs between being called up for active duty.

Physician Hance Oliver with Prisma Health has also served in the army reserves since 2001.

As part of the Medical Corps, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver will be leaving South Carolina today recently called up for active duty mobilization in another state.

Oliver says this is his 7th or 8th mobilization, and will spend the next several months helping to take care of soldiers before or after they’ve been deployed.

Lieutenant Colonel Oliver says after each mobilization, he returns with a greater sense of knowledge and patriotism.