Our Leadership

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My name is Anshul Chettri and I am an American-born citizen of Nepalese and Indian ancestry. After graduating from South Brunswick High School, I was given admission to the United States Military Academy at West Point, which is where I attended for 3 semesters. While I was there, I was able to get advanced training in weapons, demolitions, and tactical operations, and also graduated from the prestigious Army Air Assault School. Unfortunately, I did not see West Point as the place to give me the opportunities I wanted to pursue my goals of medicine and research, and I decided to leave and come home to Rutgers to incorporate myself back into the civilian world and pursue the opportunities I wanted to. Now, at Rutgers, I am a Molecular Biology and Biochemistry major on the premedical track, and I volunteer at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, as well as work as a part-time swim instructor. I have had the fortune to receive training in CPR and First Aid, and also get certified as an Open Water SCUBA diver. I also plan to become a qualified AAUS Scientific Diver to support my minor in Marine Science and give me the ability to explore a new world of possibilities. I do wish to return to the Army in the future, but hopefully with a medical degree in hand and a board certification in any kind of trauma surgery to help our nation’s veterans while they carry the mantle of our national security. My biggest desire was always to help our veterans in the best way possible because I witnessed pain when the brothers and sisters of close friends of mine would go to war and never return. It is ultimately why  I chose to serve. Many always ask about the meaning of life: I believe that my life’s meaning is to be here, as a guardian and a savior to those who protect us, because they deserve so much more than they deserve. In the words of the USAF Pararescue and military medicine as a whole, “These things we do, that others may live.”