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Sisters in the service

Sisters in arms, Tech. Sgt. Miranda Minshew, 506th Expeditionary Medical Squadron, and Spc. Julie Boggs, 263rd Quartermaster Company, recently reunited at Kirkuk Air Base after not seeing each other for more than three years. Minshew is deployed from the 377th Aerospace Medical Squadron, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. and Boggs is deployed from the 1013th Quartermaster Company, North Platte, Neb. Photo by Staff Sgt. Joshua Breckon

Spc. Julie Boggs said she was surprised her deployment allowed her to cross paths with her sister, Tech. Sgt. Miranda Minshew.

“It is kind of a long shot chance with her being in the Air Force,” said the soldier assigned to the 263rd Quartermaster Company. “The chance wasn’t very big that we were going to be deployed at the same time and actually see each other with all the different bases and our jobs being completely different.”

Louisiana Army National Guard 2nd Lt. Crystal A. Huff administers the oath of enlistment to her sister, Mindy M. Donnelly, during a swearing-in ceremony at the Military Entrance Processing Station in Shreveport, La., Sept. 30. Donnelly will immediately begin Basic Training at Fort Jackson, S.C., before joining the 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team at Camp Shelby, Miss. Photo by Spc. Scott Longstreet

On leave from a deployment in Kuwait, Louisiana Army National Guard 2nd Lt. Crystal A. Huff welcomed her sister Mindy M. Donnelly into the National Guard by administering the oath of enlistment during a swearing-in ceremony at the Military Entrance Processing Station in Shreveport, La., Sept. 30.

“The Guard is like a family to me,” said Huff, a member of the 204th Theater Aviation Operations Group. “I met my husband in the military and now have both my nephew and sister in the National Guard as well.”

Pvt. 1st Class Nedra Placke and Pvt. 1st Class Annette Havens receive congratulations from Lt. Col. Scott Smith, 155th Chemical Battalion commander, immediately preceding their promotions to specialist. Photo by Spc. Benjamin Kroger

Sisters Nedra Placke, of Dayton, Ohio, and Annette Havens, of Beavercreek, Ohio, recently received promotions from private 1st class to specialist in front of their fellow Soldiers in Headquarters, 155th Chemical Battalion. It was a special day for two sisters who have spent much of their short military service separated.

Staff Sgt. Melodie A. Hunt (left) and her sister Pfc. Mallorie A. Hunt, both Lumberton, N.C. natives, share a sisterly moment during their lunch time. The Hunt sisters are currently deployed to Baghdad as a part of the 449th Theater Aviation Brigade out of Morrisville, N.C. and 47th Forward Support Battalion out of Baumholder, Germany. Photo by Pfc. Jasmine Walthall

“It was good to be able to spend what time together that we could,” Melodie Hunt said. “We work out together, and sometimes eat meals, which is more than we had when she was in Germany.”

Her sister agreed. “The older we have become, the closer we have gotten,” Mallorie Hunt said. “Sharing this deployment has helped that.”