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Why I Serve, Senior Airman Ledarius Carpenter
Joint Force Headquarters - Mississippi National Guard
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Senior Airman Ledarius Carpenter is a Mississippi National Guardsman traveling around the state helping to facilitate community-based COVID-19 testing sites with his team from the 186th Air Refueling Wing of Meridian. (U.S. Army National Guard video by Spc. Christopher Shannon II)
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LTC Elizabeth Cordon,
WRF Resiliency Branch Chief

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MAJ Giovanni Siaca,
Joint Suicide Prevention
Program Manager

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CPT Shannon Bush-Smith,
Army National Guard Suicide Prevention Program Coordinator

Capt. Ashley Hollingsworth

Capt. Ashley Hollingsworth,
Air National Guard Suicide Prevention Program Coordinator

 

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