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Veteran hopes minority-owned business inspires others

12/12/2022

Milford Zeigler Jr. wasn’t looking to start his own business.

The Charleston resident already had retired more than once. Interwoven with a career in the private sector was more than 20 years of military service, including stints as a gunner with the First Cavalry stationed in Germany and a tour of duty in Iraq during Operation Freedom. His deployments were followed by 12 years with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

But then a fellow military veteran told him about the Robert C. Byrd Institute (RCBI) at Marshall University. That friend – Tad Robinette – had decided to start his own machine shop after successfully completing a free short-term training program RCBI offers military veterans.

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