By Daniel Zwerdling
June 11, 2012
kqed.org
Most American troops have left Iraq, and many have left
Afghanistan. Now more than half a million of them have left the service — and
they're going to college. Some vets say the transition is like landing on
another planet, but they aren't the only ones struggling: The college staffs
are, too.
At Sierra Community College, about an hour from Sacramento
in Rocklin, Calif., there are hundreds of new kinds of students mixed in with
the 18-year-olds fresh out of high school. Like James Reimers, who just turned
25. He was running patrols in Baghdad when many of his classmates were in the
fifth grade.
"Some people walking around, they have like, Mohawks,
and a nose ring, and like, a chain coming out of their ear," Reimers says.
"It makes you feel like you don't fit in here. Just, like, what's going
on?"
Or 37-year-old Jay Blake. He has short hair and his arm is
covered with warrior tattoos. He says he is struggling at Sierra. Read more
here…
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