Several Florida National Guard recruiting centers are open for the first time since Gov. Rick Scott closed them over security concerns.
Three local storefront centers reopened Monday. The changes include the following safety upgrades:
-There are now qualified full-time guard service-members armed inside the facility.
-The recruiting center's storefronts are also improved
-There is now an armed security officer assigned to each facility.
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A National Guard spokesman told us he's happy with the changes. So are the people that work at the stores around recruiting centers.
"It's making us feel safe, because it could happen here, I feel safer now," said barber Jason Watkins.
The order to originally close the facilities came days after a gunman shot and killed four Marines and a sailor at a recruiting center and another military facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Three others were wounded on July 16 during what officials called an act of domestic terrorism.
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