military
October 28, 2022
Service on his terms
Distinguished Alumni Veteran Award recipient Michael Kilmer is now a leader in Veterans Affairs 20 years after being forced out of the Coast Guard.
May 30, 2022
High-water mark
Linda Fagan will continue to put her UW master’s degree in marine affairs to good use in her new role leading the U.S. Coast Guard.
June 10, 2021
A Coast Guard first
Linda Fagan, '00, was nominated to become the highest-ranking woman in Coast Guard history.
October 26, 2018
A life in service
For her legacy of service that continues to this day in a volunteer capacity, the University of Washington presented Patti Taylor the 2018 Distinguished Alumni Veteran Award.
June 5, 2018
Herb Bridge, 1925-2018
The UW's first Distinguished Alumni Veteran Award honoree was a success in business after his Navy tour.
December 1, 2015
Distinguished Alumni Veteran
Grethe Cammermeyer, ’76, ’91, challenged the ban on gays in the military and, eventually, she won.
March 1, 2014
‘We will come back for you’
Haunted by the deaths of two soldiers in a bunker he designed, Rich Kirchner returns to Vietnam to find his fallen comrades.
December 1, 2013
Robot bonds
Julie Carpenter, who earned her doctorate in education from the UW in June, isn’t interested in fantasy movie robots. She wants to know something more serious: the social relationship between robots and their operators in the military.
March 1, 2013
Power of storytelling
A W.B. Yeats quote greets soldiers as they enter the classroom of Shawn Wong at Joint Base Lewis-McChord on a frosty, fall morning: “Write about yourself when you are most like yourself.”
December 1, 2012
Call to duty
Herb M. Bridge, ’47, U.S. Navy Rear Admiral retired, is the first recipient of the UW’s newly established Distinguished Alumni Veteran Award.
September 1, 2012
Reporter's mission
For the past 15 years, Alex Quade has served viewers as a fearless, ethical television war reporter and documentary filmmaker covering U.S. conflicts all over the globe.
A hero's lessons
In combat, you learn quickly: life is too short. As a war reporter, I often turn to our nation’s Medal of Honor recipients, not only for advice on surviving the frontlines but also on leading a meaningful life.
December 1, 2011
Soldier's story
As I reflect on the road that led me from the UW to the Udari Desert, it is easy for me to identify ways that my time at the UW earning a B.S. in Construction Management prepared me to lead troops.
September 1, 2011
Hidden cost of war
Gen. Peter Chiarelli, a Seattle native and Evans School alum, was in town as part of a national effort “to begin a conversation about veterans and what we can do to connect communities to veterans.”
March 1, 2011
An eye on soldiers
The U.S. Department of Defense awarded a five-year grant to the University of Washington School of Social Work’s Innovative Programs Research Group to develop and test an intervention for at-risk soldiers.
September 1, 2010
Damaging waves
A team of UW and Veterans Affairs researchers has gathered the first direct evidence that blast waves from roadside bombs can cause long-term changes in soldiers’ brains.
December 1, 2009
The caretaker
Each Memorial Day, a friend of Bob Leisy from Queen Anne High School parks a can of beer and an affectionate note to the friend lost in war. Perhaps that tradition of messages began with Leisy himself.
Blazing a trail
Even after four degrees, Eleanor Valentin craved a new challenge. She found it in the military.
March 1, 2008
Part of the story
Luis Sinco doesn’t hold back, whether it’s getting the best picture possible in the middle of a war zone or telling the story of how post-traumatic stress disorder has crushed the life of a 23-year-old former Marine.
June 1, 2005
Bronze Star finally comes
When Emanuel “Sonny” Marks saw a recent article announcing that certain combat veterans were still eligible for the Bronze Star, he figured there was no harm in inquiring. And that’s how he came to receive the medal in the mail on Jan. 10, more than 60 years after he earned it.