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Blind Soldier Advances Career After Iraq

July 22, 2006
HamptonRoads.com

Scott Smiley continues to advance his career in the military following a suicide attack in April 2005 that left him blind.

Taking advantage of the Army's new willingness to consider allowing seriously injured soldiers to stay in uniform, and with the backing of superiors all the way up to a three-star general, Smiley has settled into a job at Fort Monroe's Training and Doctrine Command.

“What I have fought for, I am still involved in,” he says.

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