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Thursday, December 30, 2004

Illness taking grim toll at nation's boot camps

Joan and Alvin Whipple Sr. of Spanaway mistakenly were billed $7,100 for medical care for their grandson Matthew Nish, 18, after he died in a boot camp in South Carolina. They do not believe he died of heat exhaustion, as the Army explained.