Hello, my name is George and I have served in the U.S. Army for 27 years. I am currently a Staff Sergeant stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia. I specialize in supply chain and logistics management. My role as a supply chain manager is to procure, produce, and deliver products and services across the United States and abroad, which includes equipment, supplies, and weapons that our soldiers need to do their jobs successfully [1]. 


I am a 47-year-old white male and have a wife Jessica and two children, James and Allison. We are devout Christians and live by the word of Jesus Christ [20]. I am retiring soon and I’m thinking about going back to school to complete my Bachelor's degree in supply chain management. I started attending college in my early 20’s, but I had to drop out due to military obligations. I think finally completing a Bachelor's degree will give me the credentials I need to be successful in civilian life. With a Bachelor’s degree, I can try to leverage relationships and make contacts in the civilian world to land a well-paid job [2].


Upon retirement, I will be eligible to use my G.I Bill educational benefits to attend school. I’m considering several different Universities, but I am most interested in attending Purdue University Global. They have a great Supply Chain Management program that will recognize my Military experience and expertise as a Supply Chain Manager, which should give me enough credits that I will be halfway through the program before I even start. What’s also great about this program with Purdue Global is the real-world experience I will build in the civilian world while working within the Military world [21].


It’s a great opportunity that Purdue Global has partnered with public organizations operating within the United Nations Agenda 2030 (4, 8) centralized supply chain network to feed the world with synthetic food [6, 7, 12]. Logistics technology has really streamlined connections between Military and civilian supply chains, especially when it comes to food [15, 17]. Through this connection between the U.S. Army and civilian supply chain organizations like Colgate-Palmolive, Amazon, Johnson & Johnson, and Nestle [11, 12, 21], I’ll be able to learn cutting-edge programming languages to manage the autonomous transportation systems that connect farmers throughout the world, artificial intelligence warehouse systems management, and ledger-based logistics management systems in this program [17, 26]. It’s impressive that Purdue Global is the premier virtual on-the-job training institution [10]. 


Purdue Global also uses technology I’m very comfortable with, like managing the supply chain through simulated environments within the metaverse and using virtual reality to simulate real-world applications, like in using artificial intelligence to manage robots to manufacture, package, and ship products. They even have a VR simulation for managing AI robotics in a farm-to-table situation, which is exactly what I’m looking to do [19. I also appreciate how Purdue Global connects with the same Cardano Atala Prism ID ledger technology [9, 16] as the US Military to track and certify all of my educational achievements.   

I’m really considering Purdue Global because of their values. They respect and welcome everyone that wants to learn into the University [23]. Being a Christian, this is really important to me [20]. I’m glad that they are open enrollment and focus on learning instead of social and political influences [3, 5, 14]. While some schools went so far to the left and require extensive DEI immersion training and certification, I’m glad that Purdue Global is pretty mainstream and in line with Army DEI regulations that encourage acceptance of everyone [24], but prohibit any indoctrination of DEI principles [24]. Besides, it’s in Purdue Global's interests to abide by DEI regulations so they can enroll military students funded by the GI bill. I won’t be able to afford a stellar school like Purdue Global if it weren’t for my GI Bill [25].