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By Kari BrayHerald Writer Loren Ross, a 17-year-old

student from Monroe, is the first woman in Washington and second in the country to enlist in the Army Infantry.

In December, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter ordered the military to open all jobs to women, including combat positions that previously were available only to men.

Ross grew up in a family of military men. Her father, two grandfathers, two great-grandfathers and uncle were in the military. Her dad is retired Army.

She’s the first woman in her family to enlist. As soon as she heard the infantry was an option, she knew it was the right fit for her, she said. The infantry is the Army’s main land combat force. It’s the front line.

“I really wanted a combat job,” Ross said. “I’m definitely a person to be the first one out, I’m definitely the person to take the lead. I’m very com-fortable with people follow-ing me and that’s what the

infantry is. You’re the first in line, and that’s really thrilling to me.”

She’s known since she was in eighth grade that she want-ed to join the military. She got serious about enlisting a few months ago. She met her recruiter while studying crimi-nal justice at the Sno-Isle Tech Center her junior year of high school. Now a senior, Ross is a full-time running start student through Everett Community College. She’s scheduled to graduate from Monroe High School on June 11.

Ross has lived in rural Snohomish all of her life. She works as a dog trainer in Bothell and spends much of her free time fixing up her 27-year-old pickup truck. Her family has French bulldogs and German shepherds at home that she plays and works with, but her closest canine pal is a 5-year-old Irish water spaniel named Brynn.

Ross was an explorer through the Snohomish County Sheriff ’s Office her freshman year of high school. That’s where she learned that she liked structure and

discipline, and discovered she could be a strong and thoughtful teammate.

“I’m definitely a leader,” she said. “I am very methodical. I don’t just jump the bullet. I think a lot before I do some-thing.”

She thought a lot about her decision to enlist in the infantry. She knows she made the right choice, she said. She wants to make a career out of the military.

For now, she’s staying busy with homework and getting ready to graduate. She plans to start working with trainers to get ready for basic train-ing. She’s scheduled to leave for Fort Benning, Georgia, in June 2017.

She’s ready to leave home and strike out on her own, she said.

Ross enlisted April 12, as did Levani Ilasa of Port Orchard, the first woman in the country to be recruited as a combat tank operator.

Ross didn’t expect her enlistment to be a big deal to anyone but herself, family

and friends, but she’s received a lot of encouragement from people since the Army announced she was the first female infantry recruit from Washington.

“It’s kind of empowering,” she said. “I’m not joining to be

a public picture or anything. I’m joining for myself, but it does feel good getting the acknowledgement and sup-port from people.”

She wants to make America proud, she said. She expects to be challenged and at times

overwhelmed as an infantry-woman, but she’s confident she’ll be able to handle the pressure.

Ross’ favorite subject in school is history, she said.

Now she gets to make some.

Snohomish teenager is second woman in infantry

Dan Bates / The HeraldAt Wilmot Gateway Park in Woodinville, Loren Ross, 17, of Snohomish, rests with her Irish water spaniel, Brynn (foreground) and her mother’s Beauceron, Shade. Ross, who also trains dogs, is the first woman in Washington, and only the second in the country, to enlist in the Army Infantry, which previously did not allow women.

By DEBRA VAUGHN

During World War II, black men serving in the Army were

generally relegated to menial jobs in a segregated military.

They drove trucks, served meals and hauled ammo.

In 1943 at Fort Benning in Georgia, the Army insti-tuted the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, the first all-black unit of its kind. The men were a top-notch bunch that included university stu-dents and professional ath-letes. Despite being trained for combat, they ended up in a different role — as smoke jumpers in the Pacific Northwest.

Dr. Robert Bartlett, a pro-fessor at Eastern Washington University, shared the little-known story to an audience at Oak Harbor library in April. He became fascinated by the story in part because of his father’s and uncle’s service as combat medics during World War II.

“This is a unique story for the military, the Forest Service and the Pacific Northwest,” he said. “We are all responsible in the history books for where it belongs.”

The battalion is known as the “Triple Nickles” — an old English spelling. The name

is partly because 17 of the original members were from the 92nd Infantry (Buffalo) Division — a “colored test platoon.” Their symbol is made up three buffalo nickels in a triangle.

There was no shortage of frustration for the men, who wanted to join the war effort overseas. Traveling to the Pacific Northwest was a cul-ture shock and an even more frustrating place to live and work.

Although the men were helping fight fires, they couldn’t patronize many res-taurants, hotels and other businesses in the communi-ties they were helping.

The men also were thrown in the situation with little training for smoke jumping — a very different style of parachuting than they were trained for in the Army. They had nine days of training in smoke jumping.

“They had no idea what they were doing,” Bartlett said.

Part of their mission was secret. Japan was sending bal-loon bombs via the jet stream to the U.S. They landed as far east as Michigan but most ended up in the Northwest, sparking forest fires.

For two years, the Japanese

produced thousands of bal-loons made of paper skins. Attached were 40-foot-long ropes rigged with 30-pound high-explosive bombs. The goal was to start forest fires that would instill panic and divert resources from the war effort. The U.S. government wanted the balloon bombs kept secret.

The only direct casual-ties were a pastor’s wife and

five children from a Sunday school group out on a picnic in the woods near the logging town of Bly, Ore.

After the war, the men returned home. They received the same decorations and honors as their white coun-terparts overseas because of Gen. James Gavin, who rec-ognized the importance of their service. He made sure the men were honored in a

victory parade.“They did an almost

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guise of secrecy,” Bartlett said. “Jumping fires is dangerous work.”

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Things were going well in Ashley Stephens’ pregnancy

until they weren’t.

At 32 weeks along, the Oak Harbor woman ended up at Whidbey General Hospital facing an imminent early delivery. She needed to get to a hospital with a neonatal intensive care unit — fast.

To her rescue came Naval Air Station Whidbey Island’s Search and Rescue.

That March night, it was raining hard and blowing. When the weather is that bad, Navy SAR

can fly in conditions their civilian counterparts can’t.

Stephens didn’t feel comfortable talking about what happened in public. Her mother-in-law Chrissie Dunlap was with her in the hospital.

“That Wednesday evening was a stormy night with strong winds and rain,” she said. “If anyone could fly through that mess, it would be a SAR helicopter pilot and crew.”

Later, crew chief Ricardo Rosado described it this way: “The weather was extremely tough and we encountered really heavy winds and rains throughout the flight.”

The SAR team whisked Stephens to Paine Field in Everett, where crews rushed her to Providence Regional Medical Center Everett. Doctors were able to stop labor and Stephens and her baby are doing OK. At press time, she was pregnant and

SEARCH RESCUE& NAS Whidbey crew rescues civilians as part of training

expecting the baby in a few weeks.“She was worried about the baby,” Dunlap said.

“She felt safe the whole time.”The Navy SAR team exists to save downed

Navy pilots, but it’s often civilians who benefit from the training. In 2015, the unit conducted 19 medical evacuations, 11 searches and sevens rescues — in all, they helped save 29 lives.

Many of those evacuations are from Whidbey and the San Juan Islands, where someone facing a serious medical emergency can’t wait for a ferry ride and a trip by ambulance to a larger hospital in Everett or Seattle. Unlike a civilian medical air transport, which can leave an uninsured patient with a bill for thousands of dollars, the ride is free for the patient. Tax dollars foot the bill.

That’s because the crew needs to train con-stantly and the rescue missions help do just that, explained John Seibert, a medic with the unit. He and other members of the team gave a show-and-tell presentation at the library recently.

“Ninety-nine percent of our business is civil-ian,” he said. “Thank God our jets don’t crash that often.”

But very rarely it happens. When it does, the SAR crews are a pilot’s best friend. In 1989, an A6-E Intruder crashed just after take-off from Whidbey. That day a search-and-rescue helicop-ter pilot was reportedly sitting down for lunch at the Officer’s Club on base when he saw the Intruder go down. He left lunch and raced like a bat out of hell to the tarmac and was in the air in a matter of minutes.

Pilot Denby Starling, now a retired vice admi-ral, recounted how he and his bombardier-navi-gator had to eject when the Intruder’s hydraulic systems failed that day. Both men floated down to the frigid November waters below. It was a beautiful sight, he said, when they saw the SAR crew arrive. An air crewman leapt into the water

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The Naval Air Station Whidbey Island Search and Rescue unit practices water rescue exercises at Campbell Lake in April. North Whidbey Fire and Rescue attend the exercises as a precaution.

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Today the unit operates three MH-60S helicop-ters as search-and-rescue platforms for EA-18G Growler as well as for other squadrons and per-sonnel at NAS Whidbey. The base has an agree-ment to help the state with medical evacuations and search and rescue activities.

They can be called on to operate anywhere from Mt. Hood in Oregon to the Canadian bor-der. NAS Whidbey’s SAR team is unusual — only one of four in the country — that is trained to not just pluck distressed people from the water but to handle anything in the mountains too.

The five-person crew consists of two pilots, a rescue swimmer, a crew chief and a medical technician, said Adam Trump, who is trained for

overland and swim rescues. He’s also a crew chief, and in that role he runs the back of the helo and manages the hoist that sends rescuers down and brings them back up.

The team sends rescue swimmers leaping out of the bird into frigid waters, and it can pull hurt hikers and climbers from the bottom of snowy crevasses and wooded canyons. It’s only the limi-tations of the bird itself that limit where the helo can fly.

It’s often hairy work in dangerous conditions. The crew is sometimes forced to do some fairly tricky maneuvering, including landing with one wheel on the side of a cliff.

In one incident recently, a man was climbing in the Enchantments when he slipped and fell 50 feet, landing on a rock pinnacle. Trump sent his med-tech down a rappel line and the man had to scramble up the rock face to reach the seriously injured climber, who suffered multiple broken bones.

The danger of this work can’t be understated. The weather and geographical challenges posed

by the Puget Sound and the Olympic and Cascade mountains makes this one of the most dangerous duty stations in the country for SAR teams.

In 1980, a NAS Whidbey SAR twin-rotor SeaKnight CH-46 crashed in foggy conditions in the North Cascades trying to rescue an injured climber. Of the seven on board, only the co-pilot and a sheriff ’s deputy survived.

The crew are well aware of the dangers, but the reward of helping gets Trump, the crew chief, to work.

“When we get to save someone — when it’s all said and done it’s an amazing thing,” he said.

One mission sticks in his mind in particular. A few summers ago a group of children on a summer camp kayak trip with their instructors got caught in a kelp field off Rosario Beach near Deception Pass — an area with notoriously strong currents. The SAR team worked with the Coast Guard to rescue seven children and their two adult instructors.

“When someone is having the worst day of their life, we’re there,” he said. “Our guys and gals train hard every day. We have such great people going in and risking their lives to save another.”

Photos by Hospital Corpsman First Class (HM1) Wayne PapalskiABOVE: NAS Whidbey Island Search and Rescue crew chief, Daniel Ismay, a naval aircrewman helicopter second class, completes final checks on the crew’s senior medical technician, Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Wayne Papalski, prior to his descent to an injured skier on Mount Herman Jan. 24. ON COVER: Paplaski, a hospital corpsman first class assigned to the SAR unit, approaches one of two skiers injured in an avalanche on Mount Herman Jan. 24.

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R eturning from deploy ment , many service

members carry with them something much heavier than the weight of their rucksack as they step onto U.S. soil.

Several carry with them the weight of physical wounds, disabilities and limitations. Others carry the weight of psychological wounds, such as post-trau-matic stress, military sexual trauma, anxiety and depres-sion.

Whatever their condi-tion, each of these men and women return, too, with a story.

But what if there is no one there to listen?

Shawn Wong, an author and English professor at the University of Washington, is one of six faculty members at The Red Badge Project working to help Wounded Warriors discover and give voice to these unique stories.

In March, Wong visited

the Clinton Community Hall to talk about his expe-riences working with these individuals, and the remark-able results he has witnessed time and again.

The Red Badge Project was cofounded in 2013 by actor and Air Force veter-an Tom Skerritt and Evan Bailey, Skerritt’s neighbor and a former Army captain.

Skerritt was dismayed to learn that, according to data released by the Department of Defense, more active duty service members committed suicide than were killed in combat in Afghanistan in 2012.

The main reason soldiers cited for their suicide, gath-ered from notes as well as the testimonies of those left behind, was that no one would listen to their stories.

They feel their stories are lost, Wong said.

According to the organi-zation website, the intent of the project is to sup-port Wounded Warriors in reconstructing their indi-vidual sense of purpose, self-worth and place in commu-nity, as they discover and give voice to their stories.

The organization offers three programs: The Main Course, In Your Voice and Women’s Voices.

Students are never pres-sured to write, though Wong said the majority of his students, unlike those at the university, are eager to do so. Topics are usu-ally benign and sequen-tial. Much of the time, subjects are chosen by the

Project teaches vets to tell their stories

Kate Daniel photoShawn Wong, an author and English professor at the University of Washington, speaks at Clinton Community Hall about The Red Badge Project. SEE STORIES, PAGE 7

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participants. Participants can also choose in which form they’d like to write, including poetry, prose or song.

Students are referred to the organization via veter-ans’ centers and Task Force Phoenix at Joint Base Lewis McChord.

Though Wong has been a member of the University of Washington faculty since 1984, he said he had never taught a class quite like his first with The Red Badge Project.

The first group of eight students were selected by Army social workers. The majority were National Guard, and each was a member of the Warrior Transition Battalion, a group of active duty service-men and women who were unable to continue their ser-vice due to physical or men-tal ailments.

Wong noted that sever-

al of the initial eight stu-dents had been diagnosed as delusional; three were diagnosed paranoid schizo-phrenics.

In his time with The Red Badge Project, Wong has seen numerous permuta-tions of mental and physical pain.

In addition to those wounds sustained while on active duty, he observed that numerous service-peo-ple brought existing issues into the military, includ-ing childhood trauma or neglect.

Though no two partici-pants’ experiences are iden-tical, “every single one of our students are very angry,” Wong said.

Their anger isn’t directed at Wong, or any of his col-leagues, but at what had happened to them.

“You can’t control what happened to you, but you

can control the message of what happened to you,” Wong often reminds the students.

Some had been severe-ly injured. Others had returned to broken homes and unexpectedly severed relationships. Still others had lost their jobs, like one high school teacher who had been deployed and sustained nine concussions from road-side bombs. The traumatic brain injury had rendered him unable to use his hands,

and thus unable to perform his job.

This soldier was provided with Dragon dictating soft-ware but at first declined to write a word.

The man took the course five times, Wong said. By the end of his fifth session, he’d regained the ability to write and was rehired.

“Creative activity rewires your brain,” Wong said, noting that he and his col-leagues had never anticipat-ed such results.

Though results vary, all participants have appeared to benefit, Wong said.

One of the classroom mantras is, “Tell the truth, not the facts.”

Discovering this truth, Wong said, aids in the heal-ing.

“Guys, I think we’re prac-ticing medicine without a license,” Wong recalled say-ing to his colleagues in the initial stages of the project.

Nearing the end of his

presentation, Wong men-tioned the group’s willing-ness to help facilitate local workshops, something which may come to be in the future, according to Dana Sawyers, Island County Veterans Services coordina-tor.

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By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Marcus L. Stanley

PHILIPPINE SEA — In May 2015, 95-year-old Jean Marie Dorn Lowman wanted nothing more than to see her granddaughter, Midshipman 1st Class Amber Lowman, graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy and toss her cap high in the sky.

Determined, Jean made her way to Annapolis, Md., but, hampered with declining health, was physically unable to make it inside the stadium to see the commissioning cer-emony.

That day, Ensign Lowman graduated, became a com-missioned naval officer, and achieved a milestone in the Lowman family that began in a historic movement more than 70 years earlier.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, there was a great need for additional military personnel. The country was pulled into World War II, and things began to drasti-

cally change.“The attack on Pearl

Harbor changed my grand-mother’s life,” said Lowman. “She felt compelled to serve, but found herself limited in her options, as women could not yet serve in the armed services.”

All of that was about to change with a movement allowing women to join the military, and Jean became a leader in that effort.

In college, Jean joined the civil service and worked for the Navy in human resourc-es and personnel at Moffett Field, Calif. There was an urgent need for administra-tion workers in Honolulu, Hawaii, so she and 19 other women moved there to work as civilian adminis-trators, in a successful trial program that helped lead to the creation of the well-known Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service, or WAVES.

In 1942, the WAVES pro-gram was officially launched,

allowing women to serve in the U.S. Naval Reserves, as both officer and enlisted.

“My grandmother spoke often to me about her time in Pearl Harbor and her con-tributions to the Navy,” said Lowman. “She is my hero, and if she were here today, I would say ‘thank you,’ and mean it more than ever before.”

In November 2015, while on her first underway as the main propulsion officer aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93), Lowman received the unfortunate news that her grandmother had passed away.

“What I was sad about most, was the fact that I would not be able to call and tell her about all the exciting things I was doing,” said Lowman. “I am living out her dream.”

After her Naval Academy graduation, Lowman spent her final quality moments with her grandmother. They traveled to D.C., and Jean was able to see the World War II

memorial for the first time.

“(We) took a photo in front of my favorite quote at the memorial,” said Lowman. “It says, ‘Women who stepped up were measured as citizens of the nation, not as women … this was a people’s war and everyone was in it.’”

Lowman believes the quote truly exemplifies the sacrifice

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By DEBRA VAUGHNCongressman Rick Larsen

introduced a bill that, if passed, would help get cut-ting-edge electronic warfare technology to the Navy and other service branches faster.

The bill, the Electronic Warfare Capabilities Enhancement Act, acknowl-edges the need to treat the electromagnetic spectrum as a critical operational domain and would create a more coor-dinated approach to electron-ic warfare investment at the Pentagon.

The military faces a wide range of threats — everything from terrorist groups that use cheap, commercially-available technology to rival nations deploying innovative elec-tronics, said Larsen, who co-sponsored the bill with Rep. Jackie Walorski of Indiana.

They are co-chairs of the Electronic Warfare Working Group, which attempts to raise the profile of electronic warfare issues. Congress established the group to strengthen the country’s defense. Both also serve on the House Armed Services Committee.

“Too often our women and men in uniform are using outdated technology in the increasingly contested elec-tromagnetic spectrum,” he said. “The way we develop, buy and roll out EW technol-ogy must focus on getting the right capabilities fielded more quickly.”

As the military relies more on technology, the U.S. needs to ensure those systems aren’t vulnerable to hacking, jam-ming and other forms of elec-tronic warfare, Walorski said. The bill would give Congress the tools to properly fund and provide resources for electron-ic warfare programs.

“In the global and now digital fight against terrorism, we cannot ignore the serious ramifications of failing to keep up with the ever-chang-ing pace of military technol-ogy,” she said.

Naval Air Station Whidbey Island is the home of the Navy’s tactical elec-tronic attack squadrons fly-ing the EA-18G Growler. The Growler protects other aircraft, ships and troops by neutralizing communications and anti-aircraft defenses. No aircraft carrier deploys with-out them.

Navy officials at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island and in Washington D.C. declined to comment on the signifi-cance of the bill.

“It is Navy policy not to comment on pending legis-lation,” said Kara Yingling, a spokeswoman for the Navy’s Office of the Chief of Information. “However, the Navy remains committed to working with Congress to further advance our electronic warfare technology to better meet today’s force demands.”

The bill is a companion to Senate bill 2486.

Bill would push investment in electronic warfare

By LT Devin Bezold

On Feb. 23 VAQ-131 suc-cessfully fired an advanced medium range air to air mis-sile, or AMRAAM, while flying from Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida.

The successful missile shoot was the culmination of months of planning and preparation by the “Lancer” team and was both the first time that VAQ-131 has employed an air to air weap-on in the squadron’s history

and the first time that they have fired ordnance from an EA-18G.

“The missile shoot went really well,” said Aviation Ordnanceman Second Class (AO2) Jay Hogue, a native of Kentucky. “We were able to successfully load it onto the jet very quickly.”

The Lancers leveraged their squadron mates’ expe-rience, worked as a team and loaded the missile very quickly.

“Actually loading a live missile was exciting,” Hogue said. “You’re used to seeing all these blue bands [indicat-ing a training missile] and you see a brown one and you think ‘ok, live rocket motor, this is real life stuff.’”

The VAQ-131 Lancers are concluding their first year after transitioning to the EA-18G Growler. The missile shoot showed how quickly the squadron as a whole, and particularly the AO shop, has progressed in

this time.

“They’re gaining a lot of experience, learning real fast,” said AO2 Leavens, “at Tyndall, they were just as confident and proficient as the VFA ordnance shops I have worked with.” The Lancers will soon take their training and skills to another level as they enter workups with their air wing, CVW-8, in preparation for their first deployment with the EA-18G.

Missile shoot success for VAQ-131

The Navy is accepting written pub-lic comments through May 13 on an Environmental Assessment project to clear 7.6 acres of alder trees on Naval Air Station Whidbey Island’s Ault Field that are becoming hazardous for aircraft landing on one of the base’s runways.

The proposed plan is to cut down and leave in place 7.6 acres of alders located east of Runway 25, the eastern approach runway at Ault Field, to eliminate visual

obstructions for aircraft approaching that runway for landing. The proposed action is planned to occur between September and December 2016. Future vegetation clearing at the 9.5-acre site would occur in perpetuity to prevent re-growth of visual obstructions to runway operations.

All written comments must be received by May 13, 2016, to be con-sidered by the Navy as it prepares the Final EA. If you would like to read the

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Comments may be sent by email to [email protected] or by U.S. Mail to NAS Whidbey Island Tree Cutting EA Team, NAVFAC Northwest, 1101 Tautog Circle, Room 203, Silverdale, WA 98315.

For more information, please contact Mike Welding at [email protected], or call 360-257-2286.

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The Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert A. McDonald announced that he, along with three-time Olympic gold medal-ist swimmer Nancy Hogshead-Makar and former NFL player and Super Bowl champion Phil Villapiano, have pledged to donate their brains to advance brain research conducted by VA in partnership with the Concussion Legacy Foundation.

The announcement was made at the VA-hosted Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion, a public-private partner event which builds on the trailblazing efforts of a number of distinguished VA brain researchers and brings together many of the most influential voices in the field of brain health to identify and advance solutions for mild traumatic brain injury and post trau-matic stress disorder.

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Dogs

WE NEED TO REHOME our lovely 2 year o ld ove r -s i zed Je t b lack miniature Poodle. Sweet temperment, sporty and outdoor oriented, but he is a real head turner! Prefer farm, ranch, or otherwise lively environment, similar to our own. Serious inquir ies only. Re-homing fee may ap- ply. 360-477-3465.

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ALL VEHICLES ARE ONE ONLY AND SUBJECT TO PRIOR SALE. PICTURES FOR ILLUSTRATION PURPOSES ONLY. PRICE DOES NOT INCLUDE TAX, LICENSE, AND $150 NEGOTIABLE DOCUMENT SERVICES FEE. MUST QUALIFY FOR REBATES. REBATES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. SUBJECT TO CREDIT APPROVAL. REBATE NOT AVAILABLE WITH LEASE, SPECIAL FINANCE AND SOME OTHER OFFERS. MONTHLY PAYMENT IS $13.89 FOR EVERY $1,000 FINANCED. EXAMPLE DOWN PAYMENT: 6.4%. MUST FINANCE THROUGH GM FINANCIAL OR WELLS FARGO. SOME CUSTOMERS WILL NOT QUALIFY. CASH OFFERS LIMITED TO 15% OF ELIGIBLE VEHICLES IN DEALER STOCK. NOT COMPATIBLE WITH SPECIAL FINANCE OR LEASE OFFERS. SEE DEALER FOR DETAILS. AD EXPIRES 05/15/16.

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