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We have ‘allies’ in our group, like our V.P.” “We welcome everyone and you don’t have to have served to join. “We’re not in our own island either” Garcia said. They are also in constant collaboration with other sororities and fraternities that want to contribute to the military culture, Garcia said. Sigma Tau Alpha also offers study groups and pushes its members to uphold the military lifestyle, codes of conduct and academic standards like a minimum 2.0 GPA, for example. Here we make sure to catch each other before we fall down.” “There we were trained to become one thing, but not trained to become another once we left.

“We’re unique in the way that our original first 4-year college experience was in the military,” said Jimmy Guevara, a 33-year-old member, previous president and former Marine. The group is also associated with The Soldiers Project which provides mental healthcare for post 9/11 veterans and their families. The student organization also connects their members to other off-campus resources like the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) organization and Army One Source.

“We are the founding chapter and only chapter, a support system and another avenue that veterans can rely on as some of us are trying to find a new identity.”

“They wanted to recreate a brotherhood and sisterhood that they felt they had in the military,” said Manny Garcia, the 28-year-old former Marine and president for the 2016-17 year. What binds them together are their experiences in the armed forces.įounded in 2013 by five student veterans, Sigma Tau Alpha was created with a unique and distinct mission: to help their members transition from veterans to scholars. With only 11 active members, Sigma Tau Alpha is a tight-knit family regardless of age differences and diverse backgrounds. Protective, yet playful and with an upbeat spirit that shined brighter than the yellow in the embroidered fraternity emblems they proudly wore. Like brothers and sisters at a dinner table, they often broke out in laughter poking fun at each other while sharing inside jokes.