SUAMICO, Wis. (WFRV) – Twenty-one-year-old Vaughn Campbell was living his dream of playing college football at Upper Iowa University on a full-ride scholarship.

After one practice, Vaughn suffered his fifth concussion and decided to walk away from the game of football. His school was having a job fair, and when looking and meeting people, he found the National Guard and took an interest.

“Probably time to be done after that one, and when I was looking around, they actually had a job fair at Upper Iowa, and the Iowa National Guard was there, and I kind of talked to them for a little bit and they were telling me about all of these benefits that you can get from joining the National Guard. I was like, no way this real, how come nobody else does this,” Campbell said.

In January 2024, Vaughn

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