March 31, 2021 Steve Hill is the director of Veterans Services at Salt Lake Community College. SLCC placed 16th in the 2020 Best for Vets two-year college rankings by the Military Times. (Danalee Camacho) Living in a combat zone, serving his country and attending college has been the life of Abe Wade, a communications studies major at Salt Lake Community College since November of 2020. Wade, a sergeant in the U.S. Army, is currently serving overseas in Afghanistan. Although this is not his first deployment as an enlisted man of eight-and-a-half years, this is the first time he deployed to a combat zone and exchanged his personal time to invest in his educational goals of attending college online.