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Ohio National Guard Aids Vermont Hurricane Flood Recovery
The mission: Rebuild a road that is now a 65-foot-deep, 141-foot-long hole in a hillside in the town of Cavendish. The call went out from the Vermont National Guard for heavy equipment and personnel and among other states, Ohio answered. In less than two days, Joint Task Force Tipper, which consists of the 1192nd and 1191st Engineer Companies, 200th RED HORSE Squadron, and Force Support Company and Headquarters and Headquarters Company from the 216th Engineer Battalion, … Read entire article »
National Guard troops train with NATO allies
In preparation for an upcoming deployment to Afghanistan with Hungarian Soldiers, Staff Sgt. Timothy Harmon has given himself a crash course in the language. Harmon and fellow Guard members recently completed Operational Mentor and Liaison Team training with their NATO counterparts at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center. The Minnesota National Guard also completed OMLT training with Croatian troops. Harmon, a member of the Ohio National Guard, calculates that he knows more than 50 Hungarian words and has … Read entire article »
Filed under: Afghanistan, Military, Our Allies, War on Terror
Sgt. 1st Class Mark Wanner – Silver Star
Army Sgt. 1st Class Mark Wanner prefers to be referred to as a soldier, not as a hero. But he graciously humors those who insist on the latter. On Feb. 6, the Ohio Army National Guard Special Forces medical sergeant stood unassumingly on a stage in the Ohio Statehouse atrium here to receive the Silver Star Medal — the nation’s third-highest medal for valor in combat. Despite the season’s worst snowstorm, several hundred people, including his … Read entire article »
Filed under: Afghanistan, Heroes, Military, War on Terror, WOT Heroes
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