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Griggs has become a reliable presence at theaters throughout the region, playing everything from the Tin Man in "The Wizard of Oz" to a male stripper in "The Full Monty." F Most recently, Griggs landed a coveted role in "The Music Man" that opens in Raleigh April 13 for one weekend with the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra. 42 | March/April • 2012 or the last 13 years Fayetteville and Fort Bragg have received the benefit of Ken Griggs' many talents. Fortunately for our community, Griggs, a Lieutenant Colonel Promotable in the Army, is just as comfortable in his military uniform as he is in stage make-up. In his day job, Griggs serves as the Chief of Radiology at Womack Army Medical Cent- er on Fort Bragg and oversees 175 people in the Radiology Department who perform just short of 200,000 exams annually. Aside from the full gamut of radiology procedures such as X-rays, CT scans, MRI's, and mammograms, Griggs' work consists of 50 percent clini- cal and 50 percent administrative duties. But his path in life could have gone much differently. In fact, he was carrying a stack of college applications to music theater programs when his early admissions letter from West Point arrived by mail. Saving the $150 in application fees for the other prospective colleges, Griggs elected to attend the prestigious Military Academy, where he graduated in 1989. While Griggs exercised his talents as part of the Glee Club at West Point, he also en- joyed the perks that went along with being in the Club, to include leaving every weekend as part of their duties. But before graduating, fate again intervened in Griggs' life. Though he chose the Armor branch during his last year, two weeks before graduation he was accepted into the Uni- formed Services University of the Health Sciences program, where most medical students from West Point begin their careers. When Griggs arrived at Fort Bragg aſter his residency, he worked in the old Womack hospital building that now serves as the Soldier Support Center. Fortunate to train in a digital environment, Griggs said he has not seen much change in that respect. He can produce a disc of all of a patients X-rays from the digital X-rays he reads at his desk. Ap- Photo by Lauren Thomason

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