Veterans Resource Page
It is the purpose and intent of this office to provide the highest level of service and support to all veterans, spouses, dependents and survivors. This office is veterans seeking to help veterans in any and all ways possible in a relaxed and understanding environment.
Letter from the VA Coordinator
Hello Veterans and welcome to The University of Montana Veterans Resource page. First and foremost thank you all for your service and sacrifice for our country and way of life. It is the purpose of this page to provide the most comprehensive Veterans web site for the city of Missoula, on that note if you can think of any way in which this can be improved please feel free to let me know and I will gladly take that under advisement. There have been a lot of changes to this office and to the VA in the past few years and we are continuing to move forward in order to make everything as easy as possible for you the Veteran.
I'd like to take a second to introduce you to The University of Montana. The University of Montana is located in the beautiful city of Missoula, MT, the hub of the Five Valleys at the base of Mt. Sentinel (the hill with the M on it). The university was founded in 1893 and is the largest college in the state. The University of Montana is a Liberal Arts college with our two biggest degree programs being Business and Psychology. We have a number of great degree programs, a listing of these programs can be found here. There are a great deal of extracericular activities here at the university as well ranging in scope from the UM Griz football games (with and average attendance of 23,923) to evening movies in the UC Theater.
You are all about to enter a very big change in your life. for those of you just getting off of active duty it's a much larger change than for the others. That is the key reason for the existence of this web page. Many of the Veterans on campus, myself included, have been through what it is that you are about to start going through. There is a lot of residual knowledge on this campus that can be passed down from one veteran to another and that is a resource that we ought to be exploiting. It is on that note that I call the veterans of this campus to grow together and build a Student Veterans group so that we can join the ranks of the Student Veterans of America. It is this group that is responsible for the passing of the Post 9/11 GI Bill and a good group for us to align ourselvs with.
One last thing if any of you have photos that you would like to share with everyone by having them posted on our web page I would be honored to post them. Just bring them in and we'll try to rotate the pictures as often as necessary to keep the pages looking fresh. Thank you again for everything and remember if you need anything at all just let me know.
Justin W. Raap
VA Coordinator, The University of Montana
