Col. Harold Mills, USAF Ret., Chairmen of Military Awards for Beaufort’s Gov. Paul Hamilton Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, honors Cadet Bryan Velasquez with the SAR Bronze JRTOC Medal on Friday, April 29 at Bluffton High School’s annual JROTC Awards and Achievement program in the school auditorium. Cadet Velasquez, a rising senior, was selected by the school’s Senior Army Instructor, Col. Thomas F. Foster, U.S. Army, ret., for his “Leadership, Soldierly Bearing and Excellence.” The Medal depicts a Minuteman holding a rifle, with plow and the Liberty Bell in the background. Submitted photo.
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