Tag: U.S. Army

  • Nation & World

    Between 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.

    7 minutes
    Greg Galeazzi with his family.
  • Nation & World

    Choosing a concentration

    A different kind of education awaited Joe Linhart ’03 in Iraq.

    5 minutes
    Joe Linhart and will Ferrell.
  • Nation & World

    To support and defend the Constitution

    Eleven undergraduates and one student at Harvard’s Extension School will commission as officers in the military during Commencement week.

    5 minutes
    Views of Milltary flags and a Veritas flag.
  • Nation & World

    Veteran wants to improve the quality of life for amputees

    Cameron Waites served in Iraq as an Army medic/health care specialist from 2004 to 2008. At 34, he is a student at Harvard Medical School where he hopes to discover solutions to problems that plague his fellow veterans.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A case for veterans

    Harvard Law School students argued a case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, seeking to establish the rights of veterans who are redeployed and who also have benefits claims pending.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A postwar call to service

    : The United States must do more to help its newest generation of veterans reintegrate by capitalizing on their desire to serve, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, former commander of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said at a panel event in honor of Harvard’s veterans.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Untold war stories

    Women’s voices have long been absent from stories of war — and from the process of peacemaking. A group of women scholars and filmmakers gathered at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Oct. 4 to explore those untold stories in conjunction with the new PBS series “Women, War, and Peace.”

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Plain language, complex meanings

    Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter said the simple interpretation of the U.S. Constitution is rarely so easy. He spoke during Afternoon Exercises on Commencement Day at Harvard.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    From Ivy to military

    ROTC commissioning ceremony honors students for their “honor, courage, respect, and selfless service.”

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Business Schools Tap Veterans

    Five years ago, Augusto Giacoman was commanding about 30 soldiers and leading raids in Iraq. Now he spends his days in classrooms alongside former bankers, engineers and other civilians earning a master’s in business administration.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Lessons from Afghanistan

    Kevin Kit Parker, U.S. Army major and bioengineering professor, offers a “ground-truth” description of how the war is being fought in Afghanistan, and a personal assessment of the challenges faced by U.S. forces.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    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.

    6 minutes