Female veterans find their voice
Since she started as Metropolitan State University of Denver’s director of Veteran and Military Student Services in June, Rita Case has strived…
Tag: Veterans
Cyber success
Malcolm Young discovered the demand for qualified cybersecurity professionals when he visited Lockheed Martin last fall for a software development position and…
Purple Heart, blue ocean
As if navigating a return to civilian life after nearly being killed in combat in Iraq weren’t difficult enough, Evan Stratton is…
Raise a glass to veterans
For Army National Guard Sgt. Kyle Warren, Veterans Day is a chance to celebrate those who paved the way for…
The G.I. Bill at 75
Happy 75th birthday, post-World War II American prosperity. On June 22, the country celebrates three-quarters of a century of the Serviceman’s Readjustment…
Just Keep Swimming
U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Laura Richardson still remembers being cut from her Northglenn neighborhood swim team. But even at a…
Turning chaos into order
A long, dark Alaska winter helped military veteran David Keller find a new calling. He was living in Fairbanks and…
The light at the end of the tunnel
The first two decades of Christine Russell’s career prepared her to help these men. Russell joined the U.S. Army after…
Love, loss and a promise kept
The story of Charlie and Erika Wyckoff opens in 2003 at the door to a Prescott, Ariz., laundromat. “I was…
Missing in action: support for female veterans
The November forecast for the desert outside Fallujah, Iraq, is similar to Colorado’s high plains: warm and sunny by day…