Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:03 a.m.

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A military life for some Yalies

Staff Reporter
Published Wednesday, September 25, 2002

U.S. Navy Lt. Nathaniel Fogg '97 found himself in the middle of the war on terrorism before it even had a name.

Four days after Fogg disembarked from the USS Cole in October 2000, terrorists rammed a dingy into the side of the ship, killing 17 of his fellow crew. This past summer Fogg was serving in the Arabian Sea to capture terrorists, some from the same group suspected of attacking his ship two years ago.

Before his first posting in the Middle East, Fogg's friends from Yale saw the decision to join the military as a waste of an expensive education. Since the events...

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