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Jarad Dennis, 18, of Lexington, S.C., will graduate from the South Carolina Connections Academy virtual school in June, but he was told by an Air Force recruiter he would need to complete one year of college-level classes before he could enlist. Why? Because the Pentagon limits the number of recruits it will accept from alternative or home schools.

Military doesn't want cyber students

Last updated Monday, May 9, 2011 - 8:05pm

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Students graduating from the growing ranks of online high schools are running into a hurdle if their goal is to join the military: The Pentagon doesn’t want many recruits with non-traditional diplomas.

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(BRETT FLASHNICK/The Associated Press) Basic training solders battle each other to hone warrior skills, during pugil stick training at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C., on Wednesday.

Army drops bayonets, busts abs in training revamp

Susanne M. Schafer The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 6:04pm

SLIDESHOW: New Basic Training

FORT JACKSON, S.C. -- New soldiers are grunting through the kind of stretches and twists found in "ab blaster" classes at suburban gyms as the Army revamps its basic training regimen for the first time in three decades.

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Soldiers get mass swine flu shots before holidays

Susanne M. Schafer The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, December 11, 2009 - 3:02pm

FORT JACKSON, S.C. -- Thousands of Army recruits in training must line up at least once more before heading home for the holidays, this time for mass inoculations by the hundreds against swine flu.

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