--- title: "Veterans Day at HealthVerity: Two paths from service to impact" description: Army veterans James Yang and Leonard Long, share how mission, clarity, and teamwork guided their transition to careers in healthcare data at HealthVerity image: https://blog.healthverity.com/hubfs/veterans-day-2025-featured-1.png --- Announcing HealthVerity Precision Event Alerts, a next-generation physician alerting solution. 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This year, we sat down with two teammates, **Leonard Long,** Sr. Mgr, IT Operations, and **James Yang,** Sr. Director, Corp Strategy, to talk about their journeys from the Army to careers that still put service at the center. Their paths are different, yet the themes are shared, mission mindset, clear priorities, and teamwork that gets hard things done. ## Leonard Long: Combat engineer to IT problem solver Leonard joined the Army one month after high school, following a family tradition of service. He trained as a 12B combat engineer, a role focused on mobility and counter-mobility, building bridges, removing obstacles, laying or clearing minefields, and demolitions. After stateside training in Missouri and Kentucky, he spent the rest of his active duty in West Germany during the late Cold War, served on active duty until 1989, then continued in the reserves until 1998. ![veterans-day-LL (1)](https://blog.healthverity.com/hs-fs/hubfs/veterans-day-LL%20(1).png?width=445&height=445&name=veterans-day-LL%20(1).png) When he transitioned to civilian life, Leonard used the GI Bill to study architecture, then pivoted during the Y2K era into IT. He describes himself as a “computer mechanic,” a generalist who knows enough about many systems to troubleshoot quickly. The habits he credits to the Army show up daily, plan the task, set conditions, define standards, document clearly, and practice until execution feels routine. That “fight like you train” mindset now guides how he supports teammates at HealthVerity.   ## James Yang: Armor officer to business leader James decided in high school that he wanted to serve, earned an Army ROTC scholarship, and was commissioned as an armor officer. After a year of training at Fort Benning, he joined the 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii. He first led a platoon of about 25 soldiers across 4 to 6 armored Humvees, then served as an executive officer for a roughly 100-person unit. The job meant keeping people and equipment ready, from weapons maintenance and inventory to field resupply when the plan met reality. ![veterans-day-JY (1)](https://blog.healthverity.com/hs-fs/hubfs/veterans-day-JY%20(1).png?width=422&height=422&name=veterans-day-JY%20(1).png) Asked what carries over to his work today, James points to the same core playbook, align people to a clear goal, communicate priorities, and work across functions to remove blockers. After earning an MBA at UCLA and time in consulting, he gravitated to healthcare and life sciences because the mission felt tangible. That is what drew him to HealthVerity, where outcomes, evidence, and value for patients are part of the daily conversation. ## What translates from service to civilian teams - **Mission first.** Both emphasized that purpose makes hard problems easier. They look for roles where the goal is explicit and measurable. - **Clarity under pressure.** Whether coordinating resupply in the field or untangling an IT incident, the discipline to prioritize, decide, and document wins the day. - **Train the standard.** Practice builds confidence. Leonard’s “fight like you train” mantra shows up in repeatable runbooks and clean handoffs. - **Teams over titles.** James described the executive officer role as liaison work, getting the right people and parts in the right place at the right time, a useful muscle for cross-functional planning. ## A note on transition: Where veterans often land Veterans build careers across many sectors, but federal, state, and local government roles remain a popular destination. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 23% of employed veterans work in government. Other common industries include professional and business services (~12%), manufacturing (~12%), education and health services (~9%), and transportation and utilities (~8%). These patterns reflect how military experience aligns with operations, logistics, public service, and team leadership in civilian settings. [https://www.bls.gov/news.release/vet.t05.htm](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/vet.t05.htm) ## A final word of thanks Leonard’s photo from 1986 and James’s stories from combatives on the quad are snapshots of a shared value set, humility, discipline, and service to something larger than yourself. We are grateful for their continued service at HealthVerity and for all who have served. 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