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At just 17 years old, Greg Feitt — now the co-owner of Santa Barbara bookstore Chaucer’s Books — enlisted in the Marines. At 18, he was deployed to Kuwait and participated in the invasion of Iraq. “So that was quite an experience,” he recalled. “Going in a year from living in Santa Barbara to being overseas and invading another country.” After spending more than a year in service, he moved back to his birthplace of Santa Barbara, only to be left with the difficult question of what was next for him.
This led him to Santa Barbara City College (SBCC), where he signed up for classes in the fall of 2003. His one goal: to figure it out. The question of what to do with one’s life feels unfathomable even for the average 18-year-old who didn’t just spend a year at war. For Feitt, SBCC offered a path, even if he wasn’t quite sure where it would lead.