Story by Staff Sgt. Ken Scar | 335th Signal Command (Theater) | 11.05.2016
Clemson University celebrated its 23rd annual Military Appreciation Week culminating with multiple events Saturday as the Clemson Tigers hosted the Syracuse Orange in Memorial Stadium....
Story by Staff Sgt. Ken Scar | 108th Training Command- Initial Entry Training | 09.30.2016
U.S. Air Force Lt.Col. Michael E. Mac Lain did not choose his alma mater to get promoted to lieutenant colonel at. Instead, he chose a plot of sacred ground directly across from Clemson University’s Memorial Stadium – where both of his sons, Sean and Eric, played football (and one still plays) as Clemson Tigers...
Story by Staff Sgt. Ken Scar | 108th Training Command- Initial Entry Training | 09.01.2016
More than 300 I Corps soldiers showed up at Yongin, South Korea Aug. 20, bleary-eyed and jet lagged after making the long journey from Joint-Base Lewis McChord to participate in a two-week training exercise. Two bus rides, two plane flights, several briefings, and clearing security and customs can take a toll - in all they’d been traveling nearly 24 hours. Now all they needed was food,......
Story by Staff Sgt. Ken Scar | 108th Training Command- Initial Entry Training | 08.29.2016
Three I Corps officers with a combined 70 years of experience as Army aviators spent an afternoon with one of the last OH-58D Kiowa Warriors still on active duty – a helicopter each man spent countless hours behind the controls of....
Story by Staff Sgt. Ken Scar | 108th Training Command- Initial Entry Training | 04.29.2016
An extraordinary U.S. Army career came to an end April 29 as Lt. Col. Jimmy Mullinax, commander of Clemson University’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, retired on the same stage he was commissioned on 21 years earlier....
Story by Staff Sgt. Ken Scar | 108th Training Command- Initial Entry Training | 04.14.2016
The Clemson University Reserve Officers' Training Corps celebrated the ROTC’s 100th anniversary Friday, April 14. The ceremony named former outstanding cadets as patrons to each training unit, and named two outstanding former Army cadets - retired Lt. Gen. Gene Blackwell and retired Col. Ben Skardon - to the Clemson ROTC Hall of Fame....
Story by Staff Sgt. Ken Scar | 108th Training Command- Initial Entry Training | 03.20.2016
Retired U.S. Army Col. Ben Skardon is the only survivor of the Bataan Death March who walks in the memorial march at White Sands Missile Range. He has walked eight and a half miles nine years in a row to honor his brothers-in-arms who did not return home....
Story by Staff Sgt. Ken Scar | 108th Training Command- Initial Entry Training | 01.29.2016
U.S. Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps cadets were tested on their stamina and personal courage with the Combat Water Survival Test at Clemson University Thursday....