Who We’ve Helped
The MemoirGhostwriting.com team has done an exceptional job. They were professional, sensitive, and deeply respectful. When I set out to tell the story of my medical unit’s service at Kandahar Airfield, I knew it would take a team that could handle the weight of what we lived through.
As a Navy medical officer who commanded a combat hospital in Afghanistan, I’ve seen things that are hard to put into words. These stories involve real people, real trauma, real loss, and real heroism from my team members. John, my ghostwriter, grasped that immediately and approached every interview with genuine care.
MemoirGhostwriting.com leaned on my own words whenever possible and captured my voice faithfully. The result honors my team and the moment in time we shared. I’m proud of what we’ve created together and the effect it’ll have on others.
—Captain Mike McCarten, Medical Corps, US Navy (Ret.)
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Former Fleet Surgeon for the United States Seventh Fleet, overseeing medical operations across the western Pacific and eastern Indian Oceans aboard the USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19)
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30 years’ service in the US Navy Medical Corps
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Senior Medical Officer aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) during combat flight operations supporting Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom
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Former Commanding Officer of the Naval Hospital Keflavik, Iceland, and the NATO Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit in Kandahar, Afghanistan
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Recipient of master’s degrees from the US Naval War College (national security), Harvard University (public health), and the University of Rhode Island (pharmacology and toxicology)