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From Soldier to Student, a Bumpy Road

New York Times At War Blog - Opinion Piece

September 29, 2011

In between patrols, the guys in my platoon talked about going to school one day, as if it were something just barely out of reach. Many of us were ready to leave the military to start new lives. But when I enrolled in college after coming home from Iraq, I quickly learned that the buddy-centric Army culture ingrained in me did not fit well with student life.

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