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Put an instrument in front of me, and I can play it, Kyle Brown said. The 29-year-old has been playing the guitar for 26 years.

Sergeant in Marines, leader in classroom

As a member of the University of Carolina marching band for the 2011 football season, Kyle Brown...

U.S. Navy Veteran Frank Jordan studies Biology at the University of South Carolina with plans to return to the Navy and eventually become a pilot. He has been at USC for two years now while working at the Center for Science Education.

Navy man in the sky, scholar in classroom

On the University of South Carolina campus, Frank Jordan blends in. He is quiet and keeps to himself...

Communication officers, Capt. Pierre Glover and Capt. Julian Milligan prepare to delegate and assign tasks to other response teams as part of the disaster simulation. They are tasked with coordinating the effort with civil authorities. This month, the S.C. National Guard participate in a NORAD and USNORTHCOM sponsored exercise that focuses on Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA). Ardent Sentry 13 is an exercise that involves multi state response to a simulated category 3 hurricane and the fallout involved in that storm including a hazardous material spill. Guardsmen gather at the S.C. National Guard Joint Operations Center in Columbia to be briefed and receive their orders in their mobilization.

SC National Guard scrambles to handle big disasters

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SC MILITARY NEWS

Blue Star Mothers laud military at Patriots Ball in Columbia

The Blue Star Mothers are honoring five current or former military men at their fifth annual Patriots Ball.
SHAW AIR FORCE BASE

Travelling Vietnam War monument to stop in Sumter

Vehicles from Sumter Police Department, Sumter County Sheriff's Office, Clarendon County Sheriff's Office, S.C. Highway Patrol and several motorcycle clubs will meet up with the traveling Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall convoy at about 1 p.m. Wednesday at the rest area just south of the Lake Marion...
SC MILITARY NEWS

Marine who dumped toxins felt illness was payback

Ron Poirier couldn't escape the feeling that his cancer was somehow a punishment.
SC MILITARY NEWS

Victims: Marines failed to safeguard water supply

A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing chemicals.
SHAW AIR FORCE BASE

Center opens at Shaw for nursing and expectant soldiers

Army women have to be tough, but many of them also need space in their lives to be caring mothers to young children.
SC MILITARY NEWS

New Army officers begin military careers with Wofford graduation

Members of the Southern Guards Battalion, headquartered at Wofford College, were commissioned as 2nd lieutenants before friends and family at Leonard Auditorium on campus.
SC MILITARY NEWS

Navy pilot earns degree in combat zone

Finals week was dangerous for Thomas Saenz.
SC MILITARY NEWS

Marine, dog reunited in surprise ceremony

When Marine Sgt. Ross Gundlach served as a dog handler in Afghanistan, he told the yellow lab who was his constant companion that he'd look her up when he returned home.
SC MILITARY NEWS

Soldier gets life without parole in Iraq killings

An Army sergeant was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole for the 2009 killings of five fellow service members at a combat stress clinic in Iraq.
FORT JACKSON

Take a virtual tour of Fort Jackson, from training to graduation

Catch a glimpse into the nation's largest training base with six videos from Fort Jackson. More than 50,000 men and women enter the base each year and leave soldiers.