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Jason Smedley remembers the pain of his 2000 attack by lower-ranking Marines during a training exercise he led as a lance corporal at the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton’s School of Infantry. While some held Smedley, the others beat him, knocking out many of his teeth.
“They just didn’t like taking orders from a Black guy,” Smedley said. As punishment, the group was barred from going out that weekend.
Unable to speak after enduring multiple dental surgeries, Smedley fell behind in the training and almost had to start over. At his breaking point, Smedley planned to leave the Marine Corps, until a Major convinced him to stay and ensured he would graduate with his group.
An ITK spy eyed Sanders leaving the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Wednesday night sporting his Smithsonian-worthy gear.
An image of Sanders at President Biden s inauguration last week showing the 79-year-old lawmaker sitting in a foldout chair at the formal ceremony while dressed in a parka and pair of oversized mittens instantly went viral.
Sanders announced Tuesday that he had raised $1.8 million for Vermont-based charitable organizations by selling sweatshirts on his website featuring the image of him in his cold-weather look.
The senator defended his bundled up style as the image first started to take off, telling CBS News s Gayle King in an interview immediately after the inauguration, In Vermont, we know something about the cold and we re not so concerned about good fashion.