Navy veteran B’Jard Jones was wary of asking for help with his academic career at The University of Texas at Dallas because he had been trained in the military to know how to figure things out.
After serving 14 years in the Navy, the newly discharged corpsman wanted to earn a biology degree in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and eventually become a physician assistant. But navigating the academic options at a university and connecting with educational benefits proved overwhelming at times.
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