The Importance of a Career in the Naval Academy

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At the Naval Academy after your freshman year you have to go do 30 60 days on a ship and so and summer crews you got it. The kid from New Hampshire they brought him all the way out west to San Diego and I thought I had died in gone to heaven This is unbelievable. You got surfing you got good water. It's not freezing. So that sort of Guided my way to get to San Diego. After med school or we got a ship for you ensign prevention now I'm lieutenant prevention and you're Gonna be either Going to San Diego, but those are Portsmouth. Fortunately, I did and just all worked out.

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Dr. Matthew Provencher is one of the nation’s leading orthopedic surgeons specializing in the surgical treatment and rehabilitation of injuries to the knee and shoulder.

Captain Matthew T. Provencher, MD MBA MC USNR (Ret.), a native of Barrington, New Hampshire attended Oyster River High School in Durham, New Hampshire and then the United States Naval Academy, where he was appointed the Deputy Brigade Commander (Second in command), graduated with Distinction (Highest Honors) with a Major in Electrical Engineering, and was designated as Secretary of the Navy Distinguished Graduate. He was also inducted into Phi Kappa Phi (The National Honor Society), Tau Beta Pi (The National Engineering Honor Society), and Sigma Pi Sigma (The National Physics Honor Society). During his undergraduate years, Dr. Provencher was also a 4-year varsity oarsman and First-Team All-American at Navy and named Most Valuable Oarsman. He completed his medical education at Dartmouth Medical School where he graduated with Honors and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society.

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