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<\/a>William Cody, a history major and Coast Guard veteran, takes classes in Austin Peay State University’s Harned Hall.<\/p><\/div>\n
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\u201cWe got to take a helicopter to the South Pole,\u201d Cody said recently. \u201cThat was the captain\u2019s little present to all of us. I joke that I walked around the world in three seconds because when you walk around that pole, you have literally walked around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
His branch of the U.S. military often gets overlooked, but as Cody explained, \u201cThe Coast Guard are the only ones with icebreakers in this country. We break channels open in the Great Lakes and Greenland, go the South Pole. It\u2019s a unique service. You don\u2019t have to worry about killing. You do more saving.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 1987, when Cody, a Nashville native, left the Coast Guard, he decided to go to school down the road at Austin Peay State University. Within a year, the then-29-year-old had dropped out.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t do so well,\u201d he said. \u201cI didn\u2019t take college as seriously as I should have.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thirty years later, in the spring of 2017, Cody decided to give Austin Peay State University another shot. Today, the 57-year-old history major feels like he\u2019s attending a completely different school, drinking coffee most mornings in the APSU Military Student Center (MSC) and visiting the APSU Office of Disability Services for different resources.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a disabled veteran, I see services that didn\u2019t exist back in 1987,\u201d he said. \u201cI see the campus being more nontraditional friendly, more veteran friendly. This is the friendliest veteran and nontraditional campus I have seen.\u201d<\/p>\n
For students like Cody, the University offers the MSC, a student veterans organization, Veterans Affairs counselors and several other military and veteran services. Austin Peay\u2019s dedication to this population is part of the reason why it\u2019s the state\u2019s largest provider of higher education to military-affiliated students, with at least 2,329 enrolled students having a military connection in the fall of 2017.<\/p>\n
But for Cody, there was still something missing. One morning, while drinking coffee at the MSC, he noticed military crests hanging on the wall for four branches \u2013 the U.S. Army, the Navy, the Air Force and the Marines. What about the Coast Guard?<\/p>\n
\u201cI asked (Jasmin Linares, MSC coordinator) about it, and she said since she\u2019s been there, there had never been any Coast Guard veterans,\u201d Cody said. \u201cSo I ordered one, paid for it myself.\u201d<\/p>\n
He donated the Coast Guard crest to the MSC, and it now hangs on the wall with the other branches of the military.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love being here,\u201d Cody said while walking past the Morgan University Center. \u201cWe have a nice, good-looking campus.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Clarksville, TN<\/strong> – Austin Peay State University (APSU) says that for William Cody, the Cold War was actually ice-cold. After joining the U.S. Coast Guard in 1983, at the age of 25, he found himself aboard a polar-class icebreaker ship off the coast of Antarctica.<\/p>\n![\"William](\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/APSU-student-William-Cody.jpg\" "\\"William")
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