Ohio National Guard Photo Gallery - June 2011 |
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Following the call to duty ceremony for the 1484th Transportation Company, Pvt. First Class Ryan Yeater hugs Betsy Gray, a family friend outside of the James A Rhodes Arena on Saturday, June 4, 2011, Akron, Ohio. Given only 90 days of notice, the 1484th Transportation Company will deploy to Afghanistan in late summer 2011. (Ohio National Guard Photo / Capt. Jonathan Johnson) |
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Spc. Nate Gwinn, a cook with Headquarters Battery, 174th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, puts a covered pan full of honey baked ham into a rotisserie capable of holding over 150 hams June 5, 2011. Gwinn is part of a multi-unit team of cooks providing food service during annual training at Camp Ravenna. (Ohio Army National Guard Photo by Sgt. Peter Kresge)"; |
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Linda Skaggs (from left), Lynette Rice, Kathy Neff and Jenna Santschi, all members of the Battery A, 1st Battalion, 134th Field Artillery Regiment Family Readiness Group, and Capt. Timothy J. Bill (right), Battery A commander, accept a gift of small, folded American flags from Eagle Scout leader Will Priest and his troop June 5, 2011, during the unit's Family picnic in Marion, Ohio. Thoughtful sayings were added to the flags by the Eagle Scout Troop members and presented to Battery A, which will be mobilized later this year to deploy to Afghanistan as part of the 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team. (Ohio National Guard photo) |
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Spc. Seth Dreitzler from Chillicothe cuts a board June 7, 2011 at the Camp Ravenna Joint Maneuver Training Center in northeast Ohio. Dreitzler is a member of the Chillicothe based 1194th Engineer Company. The 1194th is conducting their two week annual training at Camp Ravenna which includes a variety of construction missions. (Ohio National Guard Photo / Spc. Brian Johnson) |
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Spc. Javier Chavez from Freemont, a member of the 945th Engineer Company, operates a roller June 8, at the Camp Ravenna Joint Military Training Center in northeast Ohio. Chavez is working to compact gravel into a previously unimproved driveway at the training area there. (Ohio National Guard Photo / Spc. Brian Johnson) |
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Mallory Crabtree, 6, daughter of fallen Ohio National Guard Special Forces Soldier Sgt. 1st Class Daniel B. Crabtree, dots the 'i' in Gov. John R. Kasich's signature June 20 during a bill signing event at the Ohio Statehouse in downtown Columbus as Kasich (right) and Rep. Courtney Combs, the bill's primary sponsor, look on. House Bill 65 named several Ohio roads in honor of fallen service members, including Highway 619 in Hartville, named in honor of Crabtree, who was killed by a roadside bomb June 8, 2006, while serving in Iraq. (Ohio National Guard photo by 1st Lt. Kimberly Snow) |
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Sgt. Mark Phillips of Company C, 1st Battalion, 148th Infantry Regiment, receives an Army Achievement Medal June 11, 2011, iin Tiffin, Ohio. The award cited his superior leadership and performance while serving on the northeast Ohio Military Funeral Honors Team. (Ohio National Guard photo by Spc. Houston Tinsley) |
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Sgt. Jason Johnson passes a box of textbooks to Sgt. Chase Underwood, June 11, 2011, at Miami East High School in Casstown, Ohio. Soldiers of the Ohio Army National Guard's 1487th Transportation Company, located in Piqua, Ohio, provided flatbed semitrailers to move school equipment to the new Miami East High School. (Ohio National Guard photo by Sgt. Ashley Grissom) |
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Spcs. Claire Schweitzer and Donovan Konoff, both of the rear detachment, 1st Battalion, 174th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, drop large plastic-wrapped cubes of ice into a water buffalo June 11 at Camp Ravenna during annual training. Konoff and Schweitzer are responsible for maintaining various water points at Camp Ravenna during annual training. Their mission is to provide clean, sanitized cold water to keep the troops hydrated. (Ohio Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Peter Kresge) |
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Sgt. Andrew Klein, a construction site non-commissioned officer-in-charge with the 945th Engineer Company, explains the process of laying a parking lot with a French drain to the Ohio Army National Guard Assistant Adjutant General Col. John Harris and Brig. Gen. Robert Clouse, the 16th Engineer Brigade Commander, June 13, 2011, at Camp Ravenna Joint Military Training Center in northeast Ohio. The 1194th are feeding the jobsite by running a long haul of limestone to the site with dump trucks. Senior leaders accompanied the Assistant Adjutant General Col. John Harris as he reviewed the dining facility, various construction sites, pre-mobilization training lanes, the camp motor pool, and the engineer school. (Ohio Army National Guard Photo by Sgt. Peter Kresge) |
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Soldiers from 1st Platoon, 1194th Engineer Company, conduct a road march June 14 at the Camp Ravenna Joint Military Training Center in Northeast Ohio. The unit is comprised of carpenters, plumbers and electricians, and conducted a variety of construction missions during the annual training period. (Ohio National Guard photo by Spc. Brian Johnson) |
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Soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 174th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, train for riot control during annual training June 14, 2011, at Camp Ravenna Joint Military Training Center in Northeast Ohio. The battalion is conducting pre-mobilization training to refresh basic Soldier skills in preparation for the unit's second deployment in support of Operation Clear Skies, which provides continuous air defense over the National Capital Region. The National Guard has provided air defense artillery units for the mission to safeguard the National Capital Region since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. (Ohio Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Peter Kresge) |
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Lt. Col. Tom Caldwell (foreground, left) commander of the 216th Engineer Battalion, and Battalion Command Sgt. Maj. Steven Shepherd affix a campaign streamer to the battalion's organizational colors June 15, 2011, at the Camp Ravenna Joint Military Training Center in Northeast Ohio. For its service during Operation Iraqi Freedom from December 2003 to April 2005, the Woodlawn-based 216th was awarded a campaign streamer during its recent two-week annual training period at Camp Ravenna. (Ohio National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Heather Wolff) |
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Brigade Command Sgt. Maj. Rodger Jones (back row, right) of the 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team and veterans of Company E, 166th Infantry, stand in front of the Union County Veterans Memorial in Marysville, Ohio. Former members of the Marysville unit gathered for a reunion June 15, 2011. (Ohio National Guard photo) |
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Soldiers from the Ohio Army National Guard's Company D, 1st Battalion, 137th Aviation Regiment perform maintenance on a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter June 17, 2011, in Akron, Ohio. The Downed Aircraft Recovery Team, or DART, from Company D fixed and recovered the aircraft, which was forced to make a precautionary landing in a corn field near Akron. (Ohio National Guard photo) |
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Col. John Harris (from left), assistant adjutant general for Army, Ohio National Guard, recognizes Lt. Col. Chip Henderson, U.S. commander of Operational Mentor and Liaison Team 1.7 and Master Sgt. John Shultz, the team's senior noncommissioned officer, during the 12-man team's June 23 sendoff ceremony at Pickerington North High School. The Ohio troops will form a joint unit with their Hungarian armed forces counterparts before deploying to Afghanistan to train and mentor the Afghan National Army. (Ohio National Guard photo by 1st Lt. Kimberly Snow)"; |
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Ohio Air National Guard member Brian McNamara, a Mount Vernon, Ohio, resident, participates in a Civil War re-enactment battle as part of the 41st Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment. The Ohio National Guard is commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War this year. (Ohio National Guard Photos/Sgt.1st Class Joshua Mann) |
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One of the interested spectators at Military Appreciation Day is 6-year-old Seth Florance, who was given the rare opportunity to look through the sights of this high-tech new equipment. (Ohio National Guard Photos by Sgt. Christopher Wagner) |
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Employees of Field Maintenance Shop 17 at Camp Perry in Port Clinton show off a certificate awarding the facility the ISO 9001:2008 certification. (Ohio National Guard photo |