As Latino/Hispanic Heritage Month continues through Oct. 15, Maria Delgado G’19 took some time to reflect on how her heritage and family influenced her to join the U.S. Army.
Delgado, a Syracuse University graduate student from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Army medic and L.P.N., credits her family’s hardworking lifestyle for her success in the Army and now is focused on public health in Falk College with a goal of ultimately working to improve preventative patient care—and becoming a commissioned officer.
Memorial Day is the day set aside to honor and mourn military members who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. We do this in a number of ways, including graveside services and displaying the United States flag….
This semester, a total of 208 students with military ties representing all branches of the U.S. military earned their Syracuse University diplomas. The graduates include 99 veterans, 35 currently serving military members, and 59 family members and dependents. Forty-six students…
With her graduation this month, Rachel Pray becomes the first in her family to forge a career in both military service and medical care. Originally from central Massachusetts, Cadet Pray was inspired to join the U.S. Air Force Reserve Officer…
U.S. Army spouse Dominique Visser was born and grew up in Sydney, Australia. She was working as an international trade advisor/market development specialist for the Australian federal government when she was told of her now-husband, Andy, by mutual friends. “Good…
Ariel Blanco’s interest in the military was piqued while he was in high school in Miami, impressed by both the demeanor of the recruiters that visited the school and the opportunity military life could provide. “I grew up in a…
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