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[Music] The office of Veterans Affairs here 
at Gwinnett Tech helps our veteran students

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and their family members transition from military 
to college. We customize our approach to meet our

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veterans where they're at. We have a long list of 
services to help them succeed. [Travis Simpson] I think most of our

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veterans struggle with just being overwhelmed 
when they come through especially transitioning

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from military to college or civilian life. One of 
the big things that I like to do is kind of slow

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it down a little bit and and piece it together 
and start with one part the admissions part. [Willie Stewart] The

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Veteran Affairs Office has been outstanding for 
me. The things that I may have had confusion about

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when I go in and talk to them I go in and sit with 
them they always give me clarity I understand it

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but most of all they was always helpful to me. [Ashley Moore]
Some schools they don't have the convenience of

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a Veterans Affairs Office like going on tech does 
which I'm very thankful for. [Isaac Smith] I was having problems

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with registering online last week because they had 
me blocked for some reason within five minutes of

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being online he set up give me a second I would 
say about maybe seven minutes he fixed it.

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[Zachary Lambert] The biggest challenge that I've had to face coming 
back to school is that I have two children now and

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one of them is autistic so it takes quite a bit 
of time to take them to all the therapies that he

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needs and so on the office of Veterans Affairs has 
helped me you know just making sure that all of

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my GI bills stuff all the questions and concerns 
that I have are answered and they guide me through

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it and I've had no problems. [Dennis Antone Fludd] My name is Dennis 
Antone Fludd I served at Hope field Air Force

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Base at Special Operations Command and Fort Walton 
Beach Florida. We talked about what my disabilities

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were which is combat induced PTSD and I have a 
brain injury a mild brain injury but it comes

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with a lot of cognitive deficiencies. The Veterans 
Affairs office you know we came up with guidelines

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of what I need to know and things I need to work 
on and they walked me to my classes and made sure

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that I was aware where they and they talked to 
different instructors that were teaching the

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classes and made sure that I was doing good with 
my curriculum. I consider them friends you know

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there there are very good business professionals. 
I don't hear that often thank you for your service

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but I hear it often at this campus and they do 
a solid job at recognizing that. [Ashley Moore] I believe that

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strongly it's not just our Veterans Affairs office 
that deals with veterans themselves it's a lot of

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their dependents. [Willie Stewart] They took care of my daughters 
they took a great load off for me and for that

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reason it was easier for all of us to transition 
to go to that next level. [Zachary Lambert] The biggest advantage

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to the Office of Veterans Affairs is just the 
knowledge that they have and every time I've

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gone in to speak with somebody there they've been 
able to answer my question quickly accurately and

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they don't even have to look up the answer 
to tell me. [Willie Stewart] I think for me it was just that

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general encouragement and people making you feel 
like you could do this. [Ashley Moore] I would definitely tell

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every veteran do it don't stop after you get 
out take the chance take the risk. Without risk

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there is no reward. [Isaac Smith] We have the support system 
that's needed and that's what makes it so great.

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[Music]