No one is shooting at me. I’m not thousands of miles from home. I’m not in a combat zone. I’m in a nice, air-conditioned office overlooking Boston. It enables you to handle it.
— Josh Carroll, an associate in Ropes & Gray’s Boston office, commenting on how his 12 years of military service helps him put the burdens of long nights in the office in perspective. Carroll served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force while he was on active duty, and he’s now a major in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. Carroll volunteers as an ambassador for Service to School, a nonprofit organization that helps veterans gain admissions to some of the nation’s most elite law schools.
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