When Oscar Mier strolls through Stanford University, he remembers the journey he took to get to where he is standing today.

In 2009, Mier said he was deployed to Afghanistan with the infantry.

"I was also a part of the humanitarian mission in 2011 when Japan was hit by the enormous tsunami," Meir said.

He was deployed to the Middle East when he was 19 years old, and once he left the military, he said he was unsure what to do next.

"I felt lost, isolated, I suffered through depression, PTSD," he said. "It was very difficult for me at the time to know how to ask for help or where to get help."

But then he discovered the Warrior-Scholar Project, a national nonprofit that helps enlisted service members and veterans pursue higher education. The program helped inspire Mier to apply to Stanf

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