Background
McDaniel was born on a farm near Muskogee, Oklahoma on February 26, 1943. He grew up in Oklahoma and graduated from Blackwell High School in Blackwell, Oklahoma.
McDaniel was born on a farm near Muskogee, Oklahoma on February 26, 1943. He grew up in Oklahoma and graduated from Blackwell High School in Blackwell, Oklahoma.
He attended college at Oklahoma State University, where he was a member of the varsity wrestling team He graduated from Ohio State University in 1964 with a Bachelor of Science in Physiology. He then entered the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, and he graduated with a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1968.
He completed his residency in Tulsa, Oklahoma at Saint Francis Hospital.
He served in the Medical Corps and from 1992-1995 was Commander of the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Portsmouth, Virginia. Navy McDaniel received his commission into the United States Army Medical Corps in 1969. He was trained a flight surgeon at the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute in Pensacola, Florida.
He served as a flight surgeon at Marine Corps Air Stations in El Toro, California, Futema, Okinawa, and Whidbey Island, Washington.
He also served aboard the United States Ship TRIPOLI off the coast of Vietnam. McDaniel began his Orthopedic Surgery Residency in 1973 at the Naval Hospital in Oakland, California.
He later served as Chief of the Department of Orthopedics and then Acting Commanding Officer and Director of Clinical Services at the Naval Hospital in Rota, Spain. He then was Orthopedic Surgeon at the Naval Regional Medical Clinic, Department of Orthopedics, United States. Naval Academy.
He served aboard the United States Ship Blue Ridge in Yokosuka, Japan as the Seventh Fleet Surgeon and then as the Commanding Officer of the Naval Hospital in Oak Harbor, Washington.
In 1988, he became Commanding Officer of the Naval Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1989, he was promoted to Rear Admiral. He became the United States. Pacific Command Surgeon at Camp Her Majesty Smith, Hawaii, in June 1990.
From 1992 to 1995, he was the Commander of the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Portsmouth, Virginia.
He retired from the Navy in 1997. McDaniel was United States. Team Physician for the United States. 1984 Olympic Team, and he continued to be involved in Olympics medical care through 2000.
Throughout his navy career, McDaniel continued to wrestle, and wrestling matches between him and fellow staff members were occasionally organized at the medical centers he commanded. In 2001, McDaniel served as Johns Hopkins University"s liaison to the federal government after the September 11th attacks.
McDaniel was a contestant on Season 2 of the United States. reality television Series, The Mole, which aired in the United States. from 2001-2002.
In 2005, McDaniel led Naval Hospital Ship USNS Mercy in its tsunami relief efforts in Indonesia, where he worked in Banda Aceh and Nias Island. He also was part of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. He currently serves on the Patriot Support Advisory Board of the Behavioral Health Division of Universal Health Services.
Team Physician United States Olympic Team, Los Angeles, 1984, consultant, Colorado Springs, Colorado, since 1981. Member American Academy Orthopedic Surgery.
Married Judy Siebert, May 30, 1964 (divorced April 1967). Married Shirley Blair, December 13, 1969. Children: Valerie Park, Natalie Park, Tara.