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William Peris, 44, is a U.S. Air Force veteran and a teaching assistant at UCLA.

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Veteran draws on personal experience in teaching, gay rights research - Daily Bruin

Veteran draws on personal experience in teaching, gay rights research

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As he paced in front of a class of about two dozen students, William “Ajax” Peris appeared assured and calm. He displayed the same confident demeanor that helped him succeed at testing heat-seeking missiles and monitoring no-fly zones in Iraq throughout the 1990s, after the first Gulf War.

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Veteran draws on personal experience in teaching, gay rights research

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Feb. 4, 2014 1:29 a.m.