“…Many studies have taken into account how student veterans interact with their collegiate environment both inside and outside of the classroom (Ackerman et al, 2009;Bryan et al, 2014;Campbell & Riggs, 2015;DiRamio et al, 2008;Kirchner, 2015;Morris et al, 2019;Nyaronga & Toma, 2015;Romero et al, 2015;Vaccaro, 2015;Wheeler, 2012;Williams-Klotz & Gansemer-Topf, 2017), but a limited number of scholars have examined how this population comes to develop an internal veteran identity. The topic of veteran identity has received increased attention in the past few years (Blackwell-Starnes, 2020;Hinton, 2020), yet is still an area needing additional research. Veteran identity is an important concept to understand as it informs individuals' use of support services and engagement in veterancentered communities.…”