by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
When she wasn’t working long shifts at an Afghanistan airfield, Spc. Andrea Muresan was studying and taking online courses in a war zone. Muresan, a member of the Fort Knox-based sustainment command, recently donned a cap and gown with 30 other soldiers to receive distance learning degrees under a camouflage canopy at a Kandahar military post. “If we can do it here in Afghanistan . then anyone can do it,” she said. An increase in online course offerings and continued deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq over the last decade has led to a remarkable increase in the number of soldiers pursuing coursework in war zones, The Courier-Journal reported. It’s gone from almost none to 35,000 in 2011.
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