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Coal miners seldom get glory. Cowboys, astronauts and cops do, but how many boys strut around in coal miner helmets? In my imagination, miners are grim and unsmiling, with futures as bleak as the tunnels they descend into, only making the news if they go on strike or tunnels explode.
Well, LeRoy White is proud to have been a coal miner, thank you very much. He spent nearly 30 years in the mines, just like his father and his grandfather before him. Now he leads tours into Exhibition Coal Mine in Beckley, coal country's tribute to the men of down below.
On a recent Friday, I took a seat in a rail-riding "man car" with about 19 others as White snapped on his headlamp. The car clattered forward, and he took us 900 feet underground.
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A training course in West Virginia designed to better prepare U.S. military forces to navigate the terrain in other countries, including Iraq and Afghanistan, will officially open Monday.
The site, which staff members with the West Virginia National Guard designed, is located at the Center for National Response in Standard.
It sits on an active coal mining site and was built in partnership with Tyler-Morgan Coal Company and Pardee Resources Group.
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A new military training course in Kanawha County is just the first part of what will eventually be known as Fort West Virginia.
On Monday, officials from Washington, D.C. joined state representatives to help dedicate the Advanced Mobility Training Area which is located at the Center for National Response in Standard.
Prior to their deployments, soldiers from across the United States are now training on the new course which looks a lot like what they will face in Afghanistan.
"We've had soldiers just about from everywhere here training," First Sgt. Charles Withers from Mason County tells MetroNews.
He is part of the U.S. Army's 2nd Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group out of Kenova and helped lead the development of the course which covers more than 20 miles on an active mining site.
"The terrain here is mountainous, just like Eastern Afghanistan so training in the mountains adds a lot to it. The only difference between here and Eastern Afghanistan is we have trees," he said.
The West Virginia National Guard is partnering with Tyler-Morgan Coal Company and Pardee Resources Group on the course which will continue to grow and change in the coming years as military missions warrant.
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Rep. Raul Labrador, (R-Idaho), on the EPA preventing Mike and Chantell Sackett from building a new home, claiming their property is a wetland
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By Bill Archer
Bluefield Daily Telegraph, W.Va.
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services
Sept. 15--BRUSHFORK -- The entrance to the National Guard Armory in Brushfork was jammed with traffic as 237 vendors from 37 states, and three foreign countries opened their booths at the 19th biennial Bluefield Coal Show sponsored by the Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce.
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