Always taking advantage of that. Thanks and thanks for the opportunity to speak about the amazing young people that, as the president and ceo of student veterans of america, that i get to represent. And so to start with a little bit of background on student veterans of america or sva, started six years ago on 20 campuses because when student vets were transitioning they saw that the College Environment or higher ed was not prepared for student vets. We were older, we were much more mature. We had a different world view than just coming out of high school than say the traditional student. And so these vets met in chicago and we started on 20 campuses six years ago and today we are on more than is,000 campuses representing those 1,000 chapters with more than 400,000 student vets being serviced by our policy, our advocacy and the work we do in delivering programs. I was very fortunate to be helped by general pace and katy who is here with wall street war fighters and i had a personal sitd
They need to develop programs to worker, retain, and graduate eterans. I would like to introduce you to a korean who marine who got a degree in accounting, but after he got a job he did not uite work. It is hard to go to from liberating baghdad to being an accountant. So he went to syracuse university. Entrepreneurship, boot camp for veterans with disabilities. Its a program that helped the colonel and helped a lot of others. Using the skills he learned along with his accounting degree, john founded patriot contractors in waxahachie, texas. Its one of the Fastest Growing private companies in america. John is not only providing for his family, but some of his employees are fellow vets. Where are you, john . Are you here . John, thank you, welcome. Glad youre here. [applause] his is an important story of how a university committed to veterans can facilitate a meaningful and productive transition to civilian life. But his story also highlights another challenge facing veterans today. When
We want to talk in this panel about some of the obstacles our veterans face. Some of the obstacles certainly the wounded face. And the opportunities to empower those veterans. I want to start with general Pete Chiarelli, who i will say i have known since early in the iraq war. We went through a lot together. We have visited the wounded together. And Pete Chiarelli, since retiring as vice chief of staff of the army where he was deeply involved in issues of postTraumatic Stress, traumatic brain injury, i truly think no one cares more than Pete Chiarelli about the future of our wounded veterans and he is now with one mind, where they and he dedicates his time to continue to help those same veterans. General chiarelli, i want you to talk about those obstacles and the health and wellness of our veterans as they go forward into civilian life. Well, martha, this discussion is a double edged sword because we tend to in fact slap a label that anyone who is deployed for any period of time has ei
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