Lt. Amadeo De Luca-Westrate is a graduate of the US Naval Academy. He accepted a commission into the US Navy in May 2012 and then attended the Warren Alpert Medical School. After completing a transitional year internship at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, he was assigned to 3d Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment in Twentynine Palms, CA, where he serves as the battalion surgeon. He is now deployed as part of the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force–Crisis Response–Central Command.