Last Season's 'Bachelor' Off to Iraq

Last season's uber-boring 'Bachelor', Andy Baldwin, is being deployed to Iraq in January. Baldwin's rep confirmed that the Naval doctor has up to a 12-month assignment in the Gulf.

In the meantime Baldwin has broken up with TV love Tessa Horst (no surprise). A Baldwin pal says that while long-distance love was already proving difficult (he’s in Hawaii, she’s in San Francisco), the news he was going abroad “was a factor.”

Well I guess that's good news for all the single enlisted girls overseas, as long as none of them requires an actual conversation!

Meet The New 'Bachelor': Andy Baldwin

Ladies, start your engines! The new bachelor for the next season of ABC's 'The Bachelor' is the hottest one yet!

U.S. Navy Lieutenant Andy Baldwin, M.D., 30, an undersea medical officer for a special operations dive unit stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - a real-life "officer and a gentleman" - faces the most exciting mission of his life -- finding true love -- when the tenth edition of ABC's popular romance reality series, "The Bachelor: Officer and a Gentleman," premieres MONDAY, APRIL 2 (9:45-11:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network.

Andy, an accomplished triathlete and winner of recent humanitarian awards for his work in Laos last summer -- on a military mission where he treated over 600 Laotians in remote mountain villages -- grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he was valedictorian in high school and a competitive swimmer who made All-American. He was even named ESPN's National Scholar Athlete of the Year in 1995. The Navy offered him a full ROTC scholarship, which he took and went to Duke University, where he was a varsity letter winner on the men's swim team and began training for marathons, all while taking a pre-med course load and earning a degree in biology, with a concentration in genetics. After graduating Duke with honors, he enrolled in the University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine and was a surgical intern at Naval Hospital San Diego, where he graduated in 2003.

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