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Report puts numbers on military's impact in the state

PRE News & Ideas | By George Olsen
Published August 18, 2015 at 5:02 PM EDT

INTRO – A new report puts some numbers on the impact of the military’s presence in North Carolina. George Olsen has more.

The report from the North Carolina Military Affairs Commission and the state Department of Revenue said the military supports 578,000 jobs in North Carolina, with more than two-thirds of those in the private sector.  That number could go down over the next few years as the study indicated that 78,000 active duty personnel are expected to separate from the military through 2018, in part due to a drawdown of personnel.  The report also notes that 775,000 veterans live in North Carolina, with those veterans receiving over $8.2 billion in pensions, medical care and other support from the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments last year.  I’m George Olsen.
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George Olsen
George Olsen is a 1977 Havelock High School graduate. He received his B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Carolina in 1982 where he got his first taste of non-commercial radio working for their student station WUSC. After graduation he worked about five years in commercial radio before coming to work at Public Radio East where he has remained since outside of a nearly 3-year stint as jazz and operations coordinator at WUAL in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the early 1990s. On his return to eastern North Carolina he hosted classical music for Public Radio East before moving into the Morning Edition host position and now can be heard on All Things Considered. He also hosts and produces The Sound, five hours of Americana, Roots Rock and Contemporary Folk weekday evenings on PRE Public Radio East News & Ideas, and is a news and feature producer for Public Radio East.
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