LEXINGTON, Va., April 2 -- Virginia Military Institute issued the following news release:
LEXINGTON, Va. April 2, 2026 -Jai Vijayan '26, an economics and business major at Virginia Military Institute, researched military logistics during World War II for his honors project, "Move and Maintain: American Last-Mile Logistics in the Solomon Islands Campaign, 1942-1944."
Vijayan, who will commission into the U.S. Army as a logistics officer after he graduates in May, explained the definition of military logistics as the practice of moving armies, including transporting military forces, keeping them supplied, planning and road building, and the administrative work carrying out those activities. The focus of his thesis was the final, crucial ste...