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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced plans in 2021 to revive the force after decades of dormancy.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced plans in 2021 to revive the force after decades of dormancy.

A group of five lawmakers, military veterans on the Armed Services Committee, traveled to Kiev to meet 'with military officials and observed training exercises,' Rep. Mike Waltz said Monday.

 Army Cpl. Robert "Bob" Dunston, whose iconic shoe repair shop on Eustis Street was the stuff of which hometowns are made, was spotlighted in the June 18, 2019 issue; and Leesburg's Sword Heating and Air Conditioning owner Eric Sword, an aviation Leatherneck, grabbed the SALUTE headlines in the edition of Dec. 6, 2020. We introduced you to combat-wounded Marine Sgt. Sebastien Lajeunesse in the April 25, 2020 paper, as the Afghanistan vet continues to grab attention throughout Central Florida with St. Johns Hops, up Umatilla way.  And, in the spring of this year, it was our sad but honored ...

"Wershow was the first of the four Florida Army National Guard soldiers listed as KIA in Iraq and Afghanistan,"  Baysinger stated.    "During the night of March 19 – two days before conventional forces mounted up to cross the berm for the invasion into Iraq – Company C assisted Special Forces with the border crossing," Baysinger said.   And in a recently-cleared classified video, noted Baysinger, then-Spec. Wershow is seen planting an American and Florida State flag on the top of the berm as the forces began their speed run toward Baghdad. "By all accounts," the colonel said, "Je...