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If you were a boy born into the Scruggs family, chances are you joined the military.
Samuel Scruggs joined the Army in 1980. Of his six brothers, one other joined the Army, three were in the Navy, one joined the Air Force and one became a Marine.
Scruggs spent 13.5 of his 24 years in the Army deployed overseas. One of those deployments occurred 30 years ago when Scruggs traveled to Saudi Arabia as an S4 with the 101st Airborne Division.
âMy job in logistics was to make sure my brigade, which was DISCOM, had everything they needed in terms of water, food, bullets, maintenance parts, clothes, tents and so forth.â Scruggs said. âEverything that you can put your hands on in a unit during wartime was my responsibility, to make sure my brigade had that.â