Service, continued: Voices from Yale’s veteran community

November 8, 2024

Yale’s military community is represented in nearly every corner of campus.


In the classrooms of Yale College and the graduate and professional schools, service veterans are prepared to be leaders in the civilian world. The university’s ROTC students are trained to be leaders in the military. And in departments and programs campuswide, military veterans bring the lessons and values of that experience to their work as members of Yale’s staff and faculty.



April 16, 2026
Yale President Maurie McInnis served as the reviewing officer for Yale’s ROTC cadets and midshipmen during the annual ceremony.
March 5, 2026
A U.S. Special Operations Command major who saved a comrade from being dragged away by enemy fighters in Afghanistan in 2012 has been authorized by the U.S. House and Senate to receive the nation’s highest combat valor award. A bill that would authorize the president to award the Medal of Honor to Maj. Nicholas Dockery received unanimous approval in the Senate Tuesday night after Sen Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, brought it up for a vote along with bills to award two other Medals of Honor.... Read more here
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