Tar Heels honor Army cadet from Gastonia

Posted Nov 27, 2011
A UNC Chapel Hill student helped lead the Tar Heel football team onto the field at Kenan Stadium Saturday before the last game of the season against Duke University. Army ROTC Cadet Marshall Phillips, a 2008 Forestview High graduate, is a senior at UNC Chapel Hill and holds the rank of cadet major and is the training and operations officer for Army ROTC. (Gaston Gazette)

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