For most college students, summers are filled with internships, jobs and an occasional vacation. For Liberty University senior Austin Coombs, however, it was a time of leadership testing, as he and other Army ROTC cadets from across […]
Read moreEditor’s note: This letter and accompanying photos were left anonymously at Jesse Strong’s memorial. The items were recovered by Liberty University Police Department last year. Strong was a Liberty graduate from Vermont and a Marine who was killed in Iraq in 2005. This is a picture of the son of John Daniel Brown and Amanda Grace Brown. Daniel met Jesse […]
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According to Liberty University Military Affairs, there are more than 250 student veterans studying on campus and another 17,000 online. Some of them may have been trained by Pfc. Jason Irizarry. In 1998, Irizarry, a Florida native, joined the U.S. Army three years after high school and […]
Read moreUpon graduating high school in 2000, Stephanie Gardner followed family tradition and joined the military. She signed up with the U.S. Marine Corps just in time to take action when the world changed on Sept. 11, 2001. Gardner was two months into her Arabic course at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif. when the 9/11 tragedy happened. Gardner and […]
Read moreStudent serves country on submarine In the U.S. Navy, a group of men serve their country from beneath the ocean, the “Silent Service” defending freedom. This is the brotherhood that Heath Rogers of Parkersburg, W.Va., joined upon graduating high school in 2005. After training, Rogers was assigned to the Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Buffalo (SSN 715) out of […]
Read moreComing home for Specialist Jocelyn Fenelus, an Army gunner, was not easy. The math major had to catch back up after the semester he missed while overseas. “I have to back track a little bit, just to review and get it because I took a semester off,” Fenelus said. “I have to back track just to kind of remember what […]
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When Specialist Curtis Davis returned from Iraq in August, his life was nothing short of uncertain. Due to his late arrival back at Liberty, Davis was unable to finish paperwork to begin the fall semester. To add to the uncertainty, Davis also decided to switch his major from criminal justice to nursing. “One of the reasons to consider switching is […]
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