Hopper Valor

Hopper is a service dog in training who is currently training in Tampa, FL. He was named after Grace Brewster Murray Hopper who was a US Navy rear admiral and a pioneer in computer science, as one the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer. She had a PH.D. in mathematics from Yale and was a math professor at Vassar before joining the Navy Reserves. A guided missile destroyer (USS Hopper) and the Hopper supercomputer were named after her. In 2016 she was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Hopper left the program in November 2021 and was adopted by a veteran and his family.