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Citizen-Warrior: Guard Soldier Melds Military, Gridiron Experience

Jan 27, 2020

2LT Devin King, with the Ohio Army National Guard’s Battery C, 1st Battalion, 134th Field Artillery Regiment, also serves as the long snapper on the Ohio University football team. (Courtesy photo.) ATHENS, Ohio – Army National Guard Second Lieutenant (2LT) Devin King puts on his uniform when on duty with the Ohio Army National Guard ’s Battery C, 1st Battalion, 134th Field Artillery Regiment. He wears a different uniform on...

Meet the First Enlisted Female Guard Soldiers to Graduate Army Ranger School

Jan 13, 2020

SGT Danielle Farber of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard and SSG Jessica Smiley of the South Carolina Army National Guard became the first enlisted National Guard female Soldiers to graduate U.S. Army Ranger School. (Photo by SGT Brian Calhoun.) FORT BENNING, Ga. – Two Soldiers from the South Carolina and Pennsylvania Army National Guard are the first enlisted National Guard females to graduate from U.S. Army Ranger School. Staff...

Guard Recruiter Knows Price of Freedom

Jan 06, 2020

SPC Othello Smith, Rhode Island Army National Guard recruiter. As a boy, Othello Smith fled Liberia with his father and some family members – on foot – to escape civil war in 1996. They took refuge in Sierra Leone, only to have civil war break out there, too, forcing the family to flee yet again – this time to Guinea. Fortunately, Smith and his family were granted asylum as war refugees in the U.S. and settled in Rhode Island in 1998....

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