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Harvard and the Military
Harvard has played a significant role in America’s military traditions since the founding days of the nation, and continues its historical and ongoing commitment to military and public service, as well as its academic contributions in areas like technology, defense, and diplomacy.
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Campus & CommunityWhen your goal is literally sky-high — and you reach it
Third-generation military, Faith Schmidt ’25 is set to soar
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Campus & CommunityThe long Crimson line
Number of armed services veterans at Harvard on the rise as University ramps up outreach, support
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Campus & CommunityA minority within a minority — women vets at College
They come from different backgrounds, but all agree on need to put themselves out there and hang in
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Health20 years post-invasion, many Iraq veterans haven’t found peace
Harvard doctor who directs Home Base health program details experiences treating “invisible wounds,” including efforts to keep patients from isolating.
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Nation & WorldBetween Army and Medical School, a stop in hell
Former Army captain Gregory Galeazzi discusses his time in Afghanistan, his long recovery from injury, becoming a physician, and the withdrawal of U.S. troops.
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Harvard in the military
Recent graduates commissioned as officers through ROTC are training, traveling, and plunging into combat.
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Signing ceremony welcomes ROTC
After a 40-year hiatus, Harvard University will again host a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program on campus, according to an agreement signed Friday (March 4) by President Drew Faust and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, J.D. ’76.
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Harvard welcomes back ROTC
Harvard President Drew Faust and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus today (March 4) signed an agreement that will re-establish the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) formal presence on campus for the first time in nearly 40 years.
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From Ivy to military
ROTC commissioning ceremony honors students for their “honor, courage, respect, and selfless service.”
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Over there, over here
On the Harvard campus, as many as 150 students have an untraditional academic past, as present or former members of the U.S. military, many of whom have had multiple combat tours.
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Working to lift the fog of war
Thousands of miles from his Harvard lab, Kevin Kit Parker is lugging a gun and his engineer’s sensibilities through the mountains south of Kabul, in Afghanistan’s Wardak and Logar Provinces.
