Rodrigo Pimentel, 29, of Egg Harbor Township, may be an Army veteran, but he’s a brand new student at Stockton University, enrolling for the spring semester.

“I do need some help with the integration into college,” he said. “I need somebody to hold my hand right now.”

He got that help and more at the special Military and Veteran Orientation, coordinated by the Office of Military & Veteran Services and the Student Veterans Organization, or SVO at Stockton on Jan. 9.