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Lt. Dan Week volunteers split to start own fund for veterans, first responders
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Sergeant in Marines, leader in classroom
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Travelling Vietnam War monument to stop in Sumter
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Marine who dumped toxins felt illness was payback
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Victims: Marines failed to safeguard water supply
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Blue Star Mothers laud military at Patriots Ball in Columbia
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Navy man in the sky, scholar in classroom
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SC National Guard scrambles to handle big disasters
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Veteran is turning her war-zone work into a geography degree
It was the third time she had ever flown, and the plane was the “size of the Titanic.” Days before she had packed bottles of Garnier Fructis shampoo, a quilt and her special pillow into a huge metal case and shipped it to herself — her new address...
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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.
SC military news
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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SC NATIONAL GUARD
Don’t be alarmed by the helicopters, National Guard says
Don’t be alarmed if you see a lot of military vehicles and aircraft from the Lowcountry to the Midlands in the coming days.
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NATIONAL POLITICS
Hagel orders review of sex-abuse prevention
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday ordered the military to recertify all 25,000 people involved in programs designed to prevent and respond to sexual assault, an acknowledgement that assaults have escalated beyond the Pentagon's control.
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SC MILITARY NEWS
U.S. commander offers security assurances after Kabul suicide bombing
Two U.S. soldiers and four American civilian security contractors died Thursday when a suicide bomber in a Toyota Corolla rammed into a military convoy in Afghanistan’s capital, security officials said.




