Hoa V. Nguyen

Dr. Hoa V. Nguyen and his family left Vietnam in April 1975 when he was a young child.  During Operation New Life, they stayed at Camp Asan in Guam for two weeks, transferred to Camp Pendleton, California, and finally resettled in Fort Walton Beach, Florida with their sponsor, US Air Force Colonel Thornton Peck. Retired Lieutenant Colonel with the US Air Force and retired State Air Surgeon first returned to Guam when the Air Force, which sponsored his college tuition. He had a choice to serve in either Guam, Hawai‘i, or Korea.  He fell in love with the island again, and once he had earned his medical degree, Nguyen returned to Guam in 1995 to work in a medical clinic. In 2005, he opened the American Medical Center, which serves tens of thousands of patients.  Overall Nguyen is grateful for the opportunities Operation New Life gave his family, and is happy to able to give back to the community in Guam.  Every Sunday he likes to go fishing on his boat, enjoying the Pacific waters.