Discharged Marine fighting to rejoin Corps

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Discharged Marine fighting to rejoin Corps
By Stephanie Heinatz - The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Feb 8, 2008 19:14:14 EST

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — When Glenn Butorac enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1983, he intended to make the military his career.

After 10 years of honorable service, he was given a severance check and told to hang up his uniform.

In 1993, after Butorac felt tightness in his chest while running with his unit, the Corps medically discharged him.

He had asthma, military doctors wrote in his medical file.

Now 42 and living in Newport News, Butorac is fighting to get back into the service, to be reinstated at least as a sergeant — his rank when he left the service — and to finish his military career.


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