Brigadier General Richard W. Thomas is an Army physician and serves as the  Assistant Surgeon General (Force Projection), Office of The Surgeon General. He most recently served as Commander, Blanchfield Army Community Hospital, Fort Campbell, Kentucky.  He is certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery and is a Fellow, American College of    Surgeons. Operational deployments  include OPERATION Just Cause, OPERATION Enduring Freedom and OPERATION Iraqi Freedom. BG Thomas’s awards, decorations and honors include the Legion of Merit (with two oak leaf clusters), the Bronze Star Medal (with oak leaf cluster), the Meritorious Service Medal (with two oak leaf clusters), the Air Medal, the Army Commendation Medal (with two oak leaf clusters), the Army Achievement Medal (with three oak leaf clusters), the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal and various campaign medals. He earned the Army Staff Badge, Combat Medical Badge, Senior      Parachutist Badge, Flight Surgeon Badge and the Expert Field Medical Badge. The Army Surgeon General has bestowed upon him the "A" proficiency  designator for expertise in his medical specialty and he has been honored with the Order of Military Medical Merit. BG Thomas is a proud Honorary Member of the  Sergeant Audie Murphy Club.