In January 2017, Alexandria Sawin enrolled at UNLV, where she served as the first woman president of the Rebel Vets organization. On Sunday, the 27-year-old was named the 2018 Student Veteran of the Year, the highest individual honor given by the nonprofit Student Veterans of America.
Sixty-five Army ROTC cadets turned UNLV’s practice football field into a battleground Friday in an exercise to combine their math and science coursework with leadership skills to apply what they know about leverage, tensile strength, teamwork and trust.
It was hard. It was tough. It was cold. He got yelled at a lot. And that’s just basic training, retired Army Spc. Salvatore Cirifalco explained to Celia Roberts’ fifth-grade classroom at French Elementary School in Las Vegas on Friday.
