Author: Cami Mondeaux & Mekenzie Deneault

Army student studies behavioral counseling to shatter soldier stereotypes

Ever since he was a kid, Joe Richardson knew he wanted to enlist in the military. Growing up with two active-duty parents, it was hard to imagine anything else.  Initially, he wanted to attend a service academy — specifically the Air Force to become a medevac pilot — immediately after high school.  “It was a completely easy decision for me, personally,” said Richardson, a jun...