3. He was a former Coast Guard officer. The AP reports that Scott was with the Coast Guard two years before receiving an honorable discharge.
Read more at http://rare.us/story/5-facts-about-walter-scott-man-killed-in-s-c-police-shooting/#SrCW3MTbFkZZbeyi.99
Where did you get your info?
He wasn’t an officer, he was enlisted, for two years, before getting booted out for drugs:
Slater was also in the Coast Guard, as I indicated in first comment.