Revival of Rutgers Veterans Programs Began in Camden

On his first day at Rutgers–Camden in fall 2007, Bill Brown Jr.—a Navy SEAL who had served three overseas deployments, including one in Iraq—and a fellow student-veteran took note of the Greek banners hanging in the Campus Center. “We joked that we should start up our own veterans group,” Brown said. Carpooling home later that day, Brown and his friend, Iraqi war vet John Cosby CCAS’09, continued the discussion, brainstorming about possible group names. “John said we should call it Veterans for Education, and it kind of stuck,” Brown said.