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Across Columbia University's many schools and programs, veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces play an integral part in the student life, academic endeavors, and intellectual accomplishments of the University. This website serves as an online resource for learning about the veteran population at Columbia. Further, it offers a central and comprehensive repository of the services, policies, and procedures that affect students who are veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces.
 

Announcements

- Columbia Honor Roll remembers all of the Columbia students killed in US-involved military conflicts since 1754.

-Tillman Scholars

Veterans at Columbia
Damion DiGrazia (GS, '10)

United States Air Force, 2001-2004

I am waiting in the MEPS (Military Entrance Processing Station) in Brooklyn, NY, about to leave in a van to go to the airport where about fifty of us will depart to different airlines; resulting in our end destinations, the different branches of the U.S. military. Happenchance, this is the morning of September 11th.

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Kelsey Campbell (SIPA, '11)

U.S. Air Force, 2002-2009

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Brian P. Donnelly (Law '11)

U.S. Marine Corps, 2004-2008

I joined the military partly to live up to a long family history of service, partly because the Marine Corps offered to pay my undergraduate tuition. I enrolled in the Naval ROTC program at Cornell University in 2000 and accepted a commission in 2004. 

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