As is typical of when first meeting someone, the question of ‘what do you do’ often comes up.  While I would love to enthusiastically answer that question with pride for my profession and simply state, “I’m a veterinarian” inevidbly the follow-on question is “where do you practice.”  That then leads into ‘the explanation’ of how I’m in the Army serving on Active Duty as a veterinarian.  Most responses to that are along the lines of how people don’t know we have vets in the Army (I didn’t either until I was looking to match up my career with my husband’s.)  While there’s then an opportunity to explain about the military’s medical research programs and the support that I, as a lab animal vet, give to those programs, I usually choose to mention the need for vets based on military working dogs.  Military working dogs generously serve our country with a passion most of us humans will never know.  But that’s not why I deflect the conversation to the dogs.  I deflect the conversation to the…