Ohio National Guard News

Operation: Military Kids at Camp Kelleys Island marks 7th year

Photos by Capt. Matt Molinski, Ohio National Guard

The Ohio National Guard Family Readiness Program/4-H camp hosted children ages 9-15, from military Families, to take part in a week of activities at Kelleys Island on Lake Erie. Maj. Gen. Deborah Ashenhurst, Ohio adjutant general spent a day with the kids on Aug. 11, 2011.

Maj. Gen. Deborah Ashenhurst, Ohio adjutant general, learns from Frank Amato, of Avon, Ohio, about his duct tape craft project

Maj. Gen. Deborah Ashenhurst, Ohio adjutant general, learns from Frank Amato, of Avon, Ohio, about his duct tape craft project .

Sgt. Doug Montgomery, of Company D, Ohio Army National Guard Recruit Sustainment Program, helps Ian Manahan tighten a climbing harness in preparation to scale a climbing wall

Sgt. Doug Montgomery, of Company D, Ohio Army National Guard Recruit Sustainment Program, helps Ian Manahan tighten a climbing harness in preparation to scale a climbing wall.

Sitting in the cockpit of a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, George Gibbons (left), of Orient, Ohio, and other children from military Families participate in Operation Military Kids Camp, Aug. 11, 2011, at Kelleys Island on Lake Erie.

Capt. Kristopher Johnson, a pilot with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 137th Aviation Regiment, embraces his son, Roman, at Operation: Military Kids Camp, Aug. 11, 2011, at Kelleys Island on Lake Erie. Roman participated in a question-and-answer session with Maj. Gen. Deborah Ashenhurst, Ohio adjutant general, who arrived for a daylong visit on a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter piloted by Johnson.

Sitting in the cockpit of a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, George Gibbons (left), of Orient, Ohio, and other children from military Families participate in Operation Military Kids Camp

Sitting in the cockpit of a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, George Gibbons (left), of Orient, Ohio, and other children from military Families participate in Operation: Military Kids Camp.