Video: Brad Carney '20—From U.S. Army Ranger to Philosophy Major
Posted on November 08, 2019 by videographer Chris Johnson, text by Charlotte Albright
Carney came to Dartmouth after serving two tours in Iraq.
For Brad Carney '20, life is all about rising to a challenge. But it's taken some time for him to realize just how much he can accomplish. He attended college for a while in his home state of Delaware, studying agriculture and computer science, but neither of those fields felt like a good fit. Wanting to test his mettle, he joined the U.S. Army and served two tours in Iraq: the first as a sergeant, and the second as a Ranger in the elite special forces regiment.
A former president of the Dartmouth Undergraduate Veterans Association and a philosophy major, Carney says Dartmouth has helped him come to a deeper understanding of himself and his place in a global society.
Chris Johnson can be reached at christopher.p.johnson@dartmouth.edu.
Charlotte Albright can be reached at charlotte.e.albright@dartmouth.edu.