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Crusaders alum, OIF vet lauds drum corps experience

Benson Sharpe and some of the ordnance used during the OIF conflict.
Benson Sharpe and some of the ordnance used during the OIF conflict.

Benson Sharpe, a Boston Crusaders’ alum (he marched in 1999 and 2000) from Miami, just came home from a 10-month deployment on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

“I want to say though that if I had not had the drum corps experience I had the past three years would have been the most difficult years of my life,” Sharpe said.

Sharpe entered the Navy right after the 2000 season.

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