Colorado Guard member Sgt. Patrick Modesitt, a flight medic for the Colorado National Guard's 2nd Battalion, 135th Aviation Regiment, lowers to the ground while performing his combat hoist during training from their UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter Aug. 9 in Herat province, Afghanistan. The training prepares the crew for any conditions they might come across in retrieving any Special Operations Task Force (SOFT) West personnel needing medical attention in Herat province. The crew is on standby 24 hours a day for day and night operations. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Rasheen A. Douglas)
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Pfc. Joshua Altman, Pfc. Brandon Walton and Sgt. Ronnie Demorest, of the Kentucky Army National Guard's 118th Engineer Support Platoon, enter a flooded roadway to guide their tactical vehicle through the water. (Photo by Spc. Mark Call, Kentucky National Guard Unit Public Affairs/Historian Representative)
The Georgia National Guard played host to NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who took time to honor Georgia Army and Air Guardsmen for their service with NATO forces in the Global War on Terror, as well as for their work with the nation of Georgia in the State Partnership Program.
Here, Rasmussen (left) talks with two air weapons operations officers about their jobs aboard the Georgia Air Guard’s E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Sytem, or JSTARS, aircraft flown by Warner Robins’ 116th Air Control Wing.
Before moving to the flight line outside the Air Force Reserve’s 94th Airlift Wing, where he looked over an Army Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter and a C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft, the secretary general talked with more than 60 Soldiers, Airmen and Georgia Department of Defense civilians about the Guard’s service along side NATO forces in Afghanistan, saying of the Citizen-Soldiers in the room, "It takes a special kind of man or woman to make that kind of commitment."
With the secretary general throughout his visit were Georgia's Adjutant General, Maj. Gen. William T. Nesbitt; Maj. Gen. Maria L. Britt, Georgia Army Guard Commander; and Maj. Gen. Thomas Moore, Georgia Air Guard Commander.
Georgia Guardmember Sgt. Carmen Benson, ADT 1’s horticulturalist, hugs her family as she waits for the bus that will take her and her fellow Soldiers to Camp Atterbury, Ind.