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Texas ADT-IV takes over Ghazni mission
October 20, 2010
U.S. Army Maj. John L. Davis, leader of Texas Agribusiness Development Team-IV, greets Maj. William R. Davis, Leader of Texas ADT-III as he assists him to the aircraft. Texas ADT-IV replaced Texas ADT-III at Forward Operating Base Ghazni in Southeast Afghanistan, Oct 13, 2010.
Wisconsin, Michigan Guard provide lift for Operation New Dawn
October 20, 2010
Army Maj. Matthew Strub of Headquarters Company, 1st battalion, 147th Aviation Regiment, prepares to head out on a recent mission in Iraq. The UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter unit, which is based in Madison, Wis., has been in Iraq since September in support of Operation New Dawn.
Kentucky ADT teaches benefits of grape trellis at Dashtak demo farm
October 19, 2010
H. Sultan Hamid, chief trainer for the Roots of Peace organization out of San Diego, Calif., visits the Dashtak Demonstration Farm. Hamid explained to the farm foreman, Agha Share (white vest), and his farm workers step-by-step instructions of how to install trellis posts. Once the posts are secure, a wire at three different heights will run through the posts, training the grapes as they grow. In the past, grapes have grown on the ground which has caused the leaves to mold and caused disease to the grapes.
Air Guard general shares Afghanistan experience with school children
October 18, 2010
Air Force Brig. Gen. Guy Walsh high-fives students from Clark Wood Elementary School in Elkland, Pa., during a visit to the school, Oct. 7, 2010. Walsh, commander of the 451st Expeditionary Wing while deployed to Khandhar, Afghanistan, corresponded with third and fourth graders at the school during his year-long deployment.
Florida Guardsman takes on joint-service security mission at Gulf port
September 29, 2010
A Stryker vehicle drives aboard a cargo vessel Sept. 12, 2010 at the Sea Port of Debarkation in Kuwait, where 1st Lt. Shawn E. Britton, a Florida National Guard Soldier with Battery B under 2nd Battalion, 116th Field Artillery Regiment, and his fellow Seminole Soldiers have been pulling security since March.
Florida Guardsman wears Americal patch in Afghanistan
September 28, 2010
Sgt. 1st Class William Pegler, the battalion fuel handler for the Florida National Guard's 3rd Battalion, 20th Special Forces Group deployed to Camp Montrond, Afghanistan, still wears an Americal Division combat patch he earned while serving in the Vietnam War. His unlit cigar is also a staple for the 58-year-old grandfather.
Georgia Guardsman pulls double duty as math professor
September 28, 2010
Spc. Doug Lane, an intelligence analyst with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 110th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 224th Sustainment Brigade, 103rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), explains an algebraic equation to his math class at the COB Adder Education Centeron Contingency Operating Base Adder, Iraq, Sept. 19, 2010.
Iowa ADT discovers complexity of Kunar agriculture at demo farm
September 28, 2010
U.S. Army Sgt. Tanner Ruble, a military policeman with the Iowa National Guard's 734th Agri-Business Development Team of the Iowa National Guard, provides security as U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Bennett Groth, production agriculture specialist for the ADT, speaks through an interpreter to Mohammed Ismael, manager of the Salar Bagh Demonstration Farm, Sept. 21, 2010. The farm is owned and operated by the government of Kunar Province near Asadabad, Afghanistan. The soldier and airman were part of a mission to assess the farm, which produces corn, soybeans, tea and locust trees for timber. The ADT found the demonstration farm to be superbly run and the farm manager to have a high degree of agricultural expertise, leading the ADT to focus on methods of transferring the farm manager's skill-set to farmers throughout the province.
South Dakota DOIM connects Kabul base cluster
September 28, 2010
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Clinton Store, network operations and satellite terminal technician for the 196th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade of the South Dakota Army National Guard does a routine check on a satellite network terminal at Camp Phoenix in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 22, 2010. The satellite allows for secure network access in almost any remote field location to provide internet and telephone services to field units where normal ground communication lines are not available.
Vermont's Delta company finally sees a few familiar faces
September 27, 2010
U.S. Army Sgt. Joshua Nadeau, an infantryman from Brattleboro, Vt., with Delta Company, 3rd Battalion, 172nd Infantry Regiment of the Vermont National Guard gives snacks to a child during a patrol in Rahman Kheyl village Sept. 15, 2010.