In 2022, Dr. Erik Ramey, a Navy physician, was serving as the Senior Medical Officer at Basic Training Command (BUDs) when a BUDs student passed away.
After an extensive investigation, The Bureau of Naval Medicine determined that Dr. Ramey met the standard of care and was exonerated.
However, all that changed when he was served earlier this month stating that he must appear at a Board of Inquiry because he caused the death of the student. This is after the Navy previously affirmed Dr. Ramey fulfilled all his responsibilities as the Naval Special Warfare Center’s senior medical officer.
This has become now a politically motivated case and is the result of gross injustice by Navy prosecutors who now want to fabricate some new heightened standard of medical care that does not exist in law or medicine.
This unjust course of action could lower the standards at BUDs endangering National security by not producing the strongest war fighting operators.
Dr. Ramey now must fight the government to protect his military career which could end along with the loss of his medical license.