Veterans continue to enter the nursing landscape, diversifying the nursing workforce. However, it is unclear as to best practices for supporting these prior military, medical professionals in their academic success. At one, private, not-for-profit institution, Gasman and Arroyo's (2014) HBCU-centered student support framework was applied to the case of a military student of color. The student, key faculty, and mentors that interacted with the student of color were interviewed. Mentoring activity logs were also reviewed to corroborate interview data. The findings indicated that not all of Gasman & Arroyo's original factors seemed relevant to the student of color, with additional ones more applicable to a non-traditional, prior military veteran with medical experience. Recognition of military medical background, program diversity, and opportunity for mentoring from cultural-competent faculty and mentors are crucial to academic success, graduation, and NCLEX-RN passage and transition to practice.