Las Positas College To Honor Veterans

From Las Positas College: Las Positas College invites the community to its annual Veterans Day Observance from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 7 at 3000 Campus Hill Drive in Livermore. Events will include a Student Veterans Gallery, Opening Ceremony, a Huey helicopter landing in parking lot B, water industry job fair, and food truck.

At 2 p.m. US Army Major Michael Young, Retired will speak in Building 1000, room 1011. Major Young served 23 years in the US Army, rising from the rank of Private in the Infantry Branch to a Covert Field Operative in the Department of Defense's most secretive unit. As a young soldier, he held the distinction of being one of a very select few who have guarded the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. As a combat tested officer, he conducted clandestine solo counterterrorism missions around the globe answering to the Secretary of Defense and the President of the United States. He is a decorated soldier and combat veteran who overcame adversity at almost every turn along his path.

The Veterans Day Observance is sponsored by Las Positas College Veterans First Program, which provides veterans with services and resources to help them achieve their educational goals. This past academic year, more than 500 veterans, reserve/guard or active duty military personnel were enrolled at the college.

Veterans support services include a Veterans Resource Center, full-time program coordinator and full-time veterans counselor, priority registration, a textbook borrowing program, a study/drop-in subject support, work-study program, an active student veteran organization, and other programs and services for veterans, active duty, reservists/guard, and dependents and spouses of veterans.
For more information and observance event details, please visit the website at www.laspositascollege.edu/veterans.

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