{"id":3695,"date":"2025-11-17T22:49:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T22:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/17\/lamar-morgan-michigans-db-coach-never-stopped-teaching\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T22:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T22:49:07","slug":"lamar-morgan-michigans-db-coach-never-stopped-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/17\/lamar-morgan-michigans-db-coach-never-stopped-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"LaMar Morgan, Michigan&#8217;s DB coach, never stopped teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Copperas Cove borders Fort Hood, the large army post situated halfway between Dallas and San Antonio. The little Texas town\u2019s economy is propped up by the nearby base, and most of its residents are linked to the military. One of the roads that leads out of town and extends over rolling hills is named Tank Destroyer Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>LaMar Morgan\u2019s father was in the military, and the Morgan family moved to Copperas Cove when LaMar was very young. LaMar and two of his sisters were raised by his mother, Sydell Morgan.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s only one high school in Copperas Cove. It\u2019s one of those communities where everyone knows everyone. High school football is a point of pride, as it is in many small Texas towns, and on Friday nights, the town crams into the bleachers to watch the game.<\/p>\n<p>But growing up, LaMar\u2019s best friends played basketball, so LaMar did too. It wasn\u2019t until eighth grade, when he made a bet with one of his friends to try out for the football team, that LaMar began to enjoy the sport.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n<style><![CDATA[@media ( min-width: 300px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-1{min-height: 250px;}}@media ( min-width: 728px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-1{min-height: 90px;}}]]><\/style>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Yet almost as quickly as he started playing football, LaMar worried he\u2019d have to stop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI worked a part-time job plus worked full time for the school district,\u201d Sydell told The Michigan Daily. \u201cIt was the lack of transportation and getting him back and forth to his practices. So he told one of the coaches that my mom\u2019s lifestyle is the reason why I can\u2019t play football.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo courtesy of Jazen Morgan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sydell worked as a teacher for the in-school suspension program while picking up part-time jobs at the same time to support her family. The coach at Copperas Cove High School saw potential in LaMar, and called Sydell. Soon enough, LaMar was getting rides from some of his teammates who lived nearby.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whenever LaMar had a game, Sydell made sure to get time off to watch her son play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt bad, but I think I was doing the best I could for our family,\u201d Sydell said. \u201c\u2029\u2026 No parent wants to deny their child an opportunity, but I was being realistic with what I could and could not do. \u2029I feel like I wanted his focus to be his education if he wasn\u2019t able to play football. I was hoping things would get better so there would be a chance that, in the future, he could play football.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-2    \">\n<style><![CDATA[@media ( min-width: 300px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-2{min-height: 250px;}}@media ( min-width: 728px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-2{min-height: 90px;}}]]><\/style>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Apart from working in ISS, Sydell also worked with students with dyslexia later in her career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI admire people that have obstacles in their lives and they still strive to do their best,\u201d Sydell said. \u201c\u2026 And so I just admire those students, they\u2019re not giving up, they\u2019re not letting that define them, they\u2019re still striving to do their very best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LaMar didn\u2019t know it at the time, but he\u2019d eventually become the same way. Today, players who had never played defensive back, or maybe never even played a defensive snap, are some of LaMar\u2019s favorites to coach. Same with players who might have less confidence, or players who have all the tools but none of the technique.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Players who want to make the most of what they have probably stand out to LaMar for a reason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">***<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-3    \">\n<style><![CDATA[@media ( min-width: 300px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-3{min-height: 250px;}}@media ( min-width: 728px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-3{min-height: 90px;}}]]><\/style>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Mike Desormeaux watched from the stands. The details are blurry, but the play will stick in his mind forever.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was still a senior in high school, on a recruiting visit to Louisiana-Lafayette, when LaMar was a freshman for the Ragin\u2019 Cajuns. True freshmen didn\u2019t just come in and play back then, but LaMar was different. He was also playing with one hand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s playing free safety, and he jumps a dig out, and they overthrow it, and he jumps up and snatches it,\u201d Desormeaux told The Daily. \u201cI mean, he\u2019s got one hand open, one hand in the club (and) just snatches it and takes off. \u2026 That\u2019s the kind of guys that you want to play with, that\u2019s the kind of people you want on your team. That\u2019s the way he played the game.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LaMar had broken his wrist in high school, and re-injured it in college. He tore his ACL after his freshman year, and, following his rehabilitation, LaMar took snaps as a scout-team receiver from Desormeaux, then the scout-team quarterback at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Desormeaux realized pretty quickly that LaMar saw the game on another level compared to most of his teammates. He knew his mom was a teacher, and he saw how much LaMar valued education. It showed in the way he played the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-4    \">\n<style><![CDATA[@media ( min-width: 300px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-4{min-height: 250px;}}]]><\/style>\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cHe was one of the smartest football players that I\u2019d ever played with, just the way he understood the game and his mental approach to it,\u201d Desormeaux said. \u201c\u2026 You can tell the guys that you play with that kind of see the game a little bit differently, and he was definitely one of those guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">***<\/p>\n<p>After college, LaMar participated in some NFL Pro Days and CFL tryouts, even playing a single season for the Jacksonville Sharks of the Indoor Football League. Nothing stuck. He realized, laying on his mom\u2019s couch back in Copperas Cove, that he had to do something.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LaMar was around 23 years old when one of his former coaches called him and pushed him to coach high school football. The school year was set to start in a few months, and taking all the tests to get certified as a coach wasn\u2019t quick.<\/p>\n<p>LaMar applied to some hundred high schools all around the state, and heard nothing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-5    \">\n<style><![CDATA[@media ( min-width: 300px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-5{min-height: 250px;}}]]><\/style>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Eventually, he got an opportunity at Loflin Middle School in Joshua, Texas, two hours north of Copperas Cove. He was hired just a few days before the season began. Apart from coaching the football team, he taught Texas history to a seventh-grade class throughout the week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today, 1.66% of Joshua, Texas residents are Black. LaMar was one of the few Black teachers on Loflin\u2019s staff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re a young kid, you have a new face, you don\u2019t know anything about them and you\u2019re talking about history,\u201d LaMar told The Daily. \u201c\u2026 I was so connected to kids that were so young, really none of them looked like me at all, and they really liked me, and I really enjoyed coaching them and teaching them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But there were also obstacles of coaching middle school ball. There\u2019s no recruiting, of course, so LaMar was coaching whoever showed up. Middle schoolers didn\u2019t know any of the football terms that had become LaMar\u2019s diction as a player, nor did they care. Most of the time, the biggest challenge was keeping them engaged. Not too dissimilar from the classroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So, as if he were back on the football field, LaMar picked up some new techniques. Complex defensive schemes could be shortened to a few buzz words for each player. Plays could be simplified, and LaMar would quiz his players on calls, snapping his fingers for a few subsequent seconds as he recited the shortened call.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-6    \">\n<style><![CDATA[@media ( min-width: 300px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-6{min-height: 250px;}}]]><\/style>\n<\/aside>\n<p>If they couldn\u2019t decipher the play after a couple of snaps, then LaMar hadn\u2019t taught his players well enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeaching is coaching,\u201d Desormeaux said. \u201cThere\u2019s no separation at all. If you\u2019re not an excellent teacher, you can\u2019t coach. It doesn\u2019t matter how much football you know, doesn\u2019t matter how smart you are. If you can\u2019t get it to the kids in a way that they can apply it, then you can\u2019t coach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the seven days of spring break LaMar had as a middle school coach, he drove in his maroon GMC Envoy with his girlfriend, Jazen, from Texas to Virginia, Virginia Tech, Louisiana-Monroe, Georgia Tech \u2014\u00a0any place where one of his former coaches worked.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He figured going in person would make the best impression.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">***<\/p>\n<p>Cullowhee, North Carolina \u2014 pronounced CULL-uh-wee \u2014 is a tiny town that sits along Tuckasegee River, which cuts and winds through the Appalachian Mountains from eastern Tennessee to northern Georgia. Before it was the home of Western Carolina University, the enrollment of which nearly doubles the local population, it was a historic Cherokee village dating back to around 1,000 CE.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cullowhee is rural, quiet and one hour from the nearest airport. For prospective college football players and coaches, it wasn\u2019t an easy sell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not have alcohol sale in the county at that time,\u201d Mark Speir, former head coach of the Western Carolina Catamounts told The Daily. \u201cSo it was a hard place to recruit, because you\u2019re out in the middle of the mountains, there\u2019s nothing there but the college.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Speir was at the American Football Coaches Association convention in Indianapolis looking for a new member on his defensive staff. On Western Carolina\u2019s tight budget, Speir had already scheduled three or four interviews in advance with coaches he knew personally. He had never heard of LaMar, but Shawn Quinn, the Catamounts\u2019 defensive coordinator at the time and one of LaMar\u2019s coaches at Louisiana-Lafayette, told Speir he needed to talk to LaMar.<\/p>\n<p>The two sat down at a table at a restaurant in the Marriott at 7 p.m., Speir\u2019s final interview of the day. Speir brought a little notebook and had LaMar draw up different schemes and looks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt didn\u2019t take me long to figure out he knew ball,\u201d Speir said. \u201cThe rest of the interview was about, \u2018Is this guy going to fit in with our staff?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>They talked about LaMar\u2019s recruiting philosophy and how he communicates with players. They talked about his goals as a coach, as a person. They talked about character. Speir learned about LaMar\u2019s background, where he came from, what made him tick. He saw someone hungry for an opportunity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That LaMar had been a teacher, and that his mother was a teacher too, stood out to Speir. Speir\u2019s philosophy was that guys who coached high school, many of whom taught in the classroom as well, were good at developing relationships with anyone. And once you developed the person, Spier believed, the football part would take care of itself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speir estimates they talked for three hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou always go out with your friends, the other coaching friends at night,\u201d Speir said. \u201cI remember I was late \u2026 I kept telling my wife, \u2018I\u2019ll be there in a little bit.\u2019 I was texting her \u2018A little bit longer.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speir did eventually hit the bars that night, finishing things up with LaMar without telling him when, or if, he\u2019d call back. The next day, he offered LaMar the job.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In LaMar\u2019s first season as the secondary coach, Western Carolina was fifth in the FCS with 11 interceptions, a number the Catamounts hadn\u2019t touched in the previous five years. LaMar coached cornerback Trey Morgan and safety Ace Clark to All-Southern Conference First and Second team honors, respectively. But more than anything, Speir remembers the halftimes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" data-attachment-id=\"572565\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/1397612925310\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1397612925310.jpg?fit=2400%2C1601&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2400,1601\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1397612925310\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo courtesy of Jazen Morgan.&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1397612925310.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1397612925310.jpg?fit=780%2C520&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1397612925310.jpg?resize=780%2C520&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-572565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1397612925310.jpg?w=2400&amp;ssl=1 2400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1397612925310.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1397612925310.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1397612925310.jpg?resize=1536%2C1025&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1397612925310.jpg?resize=2048%2C1366&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1397612925310.jpg?resize=1200%2C801&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1397612925310.jpg?resize=2000%2C1334&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1397612925310.jpg?resize=780%2C520&amp;ssl=1 780w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1397612925310.jpg?resize=400%2C267&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1397612925310.jpg?w=2340&amp;ssl=1 2340w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1397612925310.jpg?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo courtesy of LaMar Morgan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No matter the score after two quarters, LaMar was the same guy. There was no cheering on good plays, or hollering about bad ones. In Western Carolina\u2019s locker room, LaMar spoke to the secondary as the whole defense listened. He would go over what the first series would be, and the necessary adjustments the Catamounts had to make. It was problem solving, through schemes and formations. Speir rarely saw that from a coach of LaMar\u2019s age.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether we were up or down, he was always the coach that kept it real,\u201d Speir said. \u201cHe was never a hype coach, which a lot of young coaches are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LaMar\u2019s maturity set him apart, and at a school like Western Carolina, retaining talented coaches is hard. After climbing the ranks through four schools in nine years, he joined Michigan\u2019s staff as a defensive backs coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">***<\/p>\n<p>LaMar hates the word \u2018smart.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like poison when someone tells you you\u2019re smart,\u201d LaMar said. \u201c\u2026 What does smart mean? Like, what did you do to be smart? Did you work? What are you praising? Just because you answer the questions, or did you study. Praise the stuff that you did to be there. Preparation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Talk to LaMar for a while, and you\u2019ll realize his entire career is built on preparation. He still employs all of those teaching tactics he used as a middle school coach. In meetings at Michigan, he\u2019ll never call on someone before asking a question. He\u2019ll say the question first, then look out across his room for an answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want everybody in the room to be thinking, \u2018Coach could call on me,\u2019 \u201d LaMar said. \u201cBut if I just say, \u2018LaMar, what do you have?\u2019 Everybody else relaxes, and they stop listening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the Wolverines\u2019 defense, the plays are more advanced, but the teaching techniques stay the same. Long defensive playcalls are split up by player; one guy\u2019s a seam-curl-flat, one guy\u2019s a bang-to-buzz. Quick, memorable terms that are easy to teach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At Michigan, halftimes are similar too.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"1170\" data-attachment-id=\"572564\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/1000056556\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000056556.jpg?fit=1600%2C2400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1600,2400\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1000056556\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo courtesy of Jazen Morgan.&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000056556.jpg?fit=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000056556.jpg?fit=780%2C1170&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000056556.jpg?resize=780%2C1170&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-572564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000056556.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000056556.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000056556.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000056556.jpg?resize=1024%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000056556.jpg?resize=1365%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1365w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000056556.jpg?resize=1200%2C1800&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000056556.jpg?resize=780%2C1170&amp;ssl=1 780w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000056556.jpg?resize=400%2C600&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michigandaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1000056556.jpg?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo courtesy of Jazen Morgan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>There\u2019s a big whiteboard in the Wolverines\u2019 locker room, near the defensive players\u2019 lockers. LaMar is always the first to write on it once the second quarter ends. Just like at Western Carolina, it\u2019s all scheme and adjustments. But it\u2019s not a lecture.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like to teach off the board,\u201d LaMar said. \u201cI like to ask them how they see it, too. Just because I see it, I\u2019m not playing, I\u2019m not making any tackle this weekend, it\u2019s really what the kids see and how they see it. \u2026 The biggest thing I try to do is just like, see where they\u2019re at, see how they see this play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, the players see something he doesn\u2019t, and a suggestion becomes an adjustment. Maybe a certain fit against a condensed set, or a different look on third down. As much as Michigan\u2019s players are learning from LaMar, he\u2019s learning from them. For those 15 minutes of halftime, he\u2019s back in the classroom.<\/p>\n<aside>\n<div class=\"newspack-popup-container newspack-popup hidden  newspack-inline-popup      \" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#000\" id=\"id_162162\" data-segments=\"\" data-frequency=\"0,0,0,month\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Please consider donating to The Michigan Daily<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related articles<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copperas Cove borders Fort Hood, the large army post situated halfway between Dallas and San Antonio. The little Texas town\u2019s economy is propped up by the nearby base, and most of its residents are linked to the military. 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