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CCU veterans receive Quilts of Valor

Two Coastal Carolina University students recently received Quilts of Valor from the Quilts of Valor Foundation (Region 8) at the Veteran’s Café in Myrtle Beach; both are Student Veterans Association work study students.

Shebbena McGrew, a senior and a ROTC cadet majoring in biology, and Justin Sterbenz, a senior majoring in management, received quilts recently. McGrew will be an Army Non-Commissioned Officer SGT (E-5) when she graduates. Sterbenz will be Army enlisted, Specialist (E-4). He was a member of the prestigious “Old Guard” at Fort Myer, Va., guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and serving in parades and funerals.

CCU staff members Greg Nance, Porter Medley and Denny Powers also received quilts at the military appreciation baseball game.

Powers, director of the Office of Veteran Services, retired as a Commissioned Chief Warrant Officer Four(CW-4) Criminal Investigation Division Special Agent. He was deployed to the Persian Gulf for Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. He served in the Army near the end of the Vietnam war but never deployed to Vietnam. He served 22 years and retired in 1994.

Nance was Army Non-Commissioned Officer retired as a SGT (E-5) and works as the Military Funding Coordinator in the Office of Veterans Services and is a graduate student at Liberty University majoring in military resilience. He had eight years of service and one deployment to Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom.

Medley, senior director of conference services, scheduling and event services, is retired Navy. Porter was a Petty Officer First Class (E-6) and served 20 years.
 

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