As Veterans Day approaches, a College of Communication and Information staff member who has spent 16 years in the military is headed overseas to active duty.

Jesse Cragwall, a major in the US Army Reserves, will take a leave from his job as assistant director of the Center for Information and Communication Studies, the research arm of the college. He’ll deploy for nine months and be stationed in Wiesbaden, Germany.

“I will be supporting a NATO mission, strengthening NATO allies against Russian aggression,” he said.