Transferred to the Navy Medical Corp and was class Valedictorian.
I see this posted quite often.
The Navy isn't 'college' and they don't have 'valedictorian.'
Someone made that up thinking it sounds good.
All medical schools have a valedictorian. Here is a white guy who graduated from the same school as Wright and guess what, he was also, "Class Valedictorian", unless he was also lying.
McCook Daily Gazette: Obituaries from December 2001
Brandon Lee Hendricks (12/20/01)
Brandon Lee Hendricks Brandon Lee Hendricks was born March 13, 1972, in Oklahoma City, Okla. He graduated from Russellville High School in Arkansas in 1990. Brandon interrupted his college in 1999 to enter the U. S. Navy. He attended Hospital Corps School in Great Lakes, Ill., and graduated with Honors and Distinction as the Class Valedictorian. ...
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If this about Wright were a lie, believe me, Fox and Hannity and Bill and Anne and Laura and Charles would be having a field day. They would be going nuts and crazy. It would be front page news all over the US in every paper. The conservatives would never let it die.
Alas, instead, they try not to mention it. Pity.