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For student vet, sign-on bonus and no student loans ‘looked pretty good’
Columbia native Joe Bastedo went from preparing pizzas in his hometown to clearing roadside bombs in the unforgiving conditions of Afghanistan.
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F-35B completes first vertical takeoff
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Richland Sheriff’s Department finalist for Defense Department award
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Traveling Vietnam memorial arrives in Sumter
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Pentagon: New record plan won't help vet backlog
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Fort Jackson commander suspended, accused of adultery
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APNewsBreak: Coast Guard deserter to be confined
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SBA starting new lending program for veterans
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Veteran is turning her war-zone work into a geography degree
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Naval Hospital Beaufort opens new outpatient clinic
Naval Hospital Beaufort and the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center in Charleston collaborated to open an expanded outpatient clinic Wednesday in the hospital in Port Royal.
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House passes bill on lying about military medals
People who falsely claim they have received a military medal in order to obtain money or government benefits could face up to a year in jail under legislation that easily passed the House Monday.
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Travelling Vietnam Wall Memorial arrives in Sumter
Sumter resident Jimmy Shuping remembers a time when military veterans weren’t as celebrated as they are today.
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New monument honors ‘overlooked’ WWII aviators killed in training at Columbia base
Harold Jones hopes a new monument for aviators he considers forgotten heroes of World War II attracts sightseers to a quiet area near Columbia Metropolitan Airport.
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Steelers RB talks Vietnam War, football ahead of Myrtle Beach Memorial Day parade
The city of Myrtle Beach has scored a touchdown in welcoming the grand marshal for its 2013 Memorial Day weekend parade.
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SC MILITARY NEWS
Lt. Dan Week volunteers split to start own fund for veterans, first responders
Several local Lt. Dan Week organizers have broken away from the Independence Fund to start their own organization that will raise money for wounded veterans, as well as first-responders such as police and firefighters.
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Sergeant in Marines, leader in classroom
As a member of the University of Carolina marching band for the 2011 football season, Kyle Brown has visited four stadiums in the SEC Carolina, Mississippi State, Tennessee and Arkansas.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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SC MILITARY NEWS
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, and on the surface, he is indistinguishable from the 31,000 other students who weave in and out of classrooms throughout the day.
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SC NATIONAL GUARD
SC National Guard scrambles to handle big disasters
Four-day military exercise puts 1,500 S.C. National Guard members in intense simulation of potentially disastrous situations.




