Three-year-old Jada Nimrick and her brother, 7-year-old Jeffrey Nimrick, their mother, Liz, and grandmother, Maria Rivera, listen to Col. Tim Newman, the Commander of the 108th Sustainment Brigade, speak to the team of deploying Soldiers. Jada and Jeffrey are the niece and nephew of the team's maintenance expert, Staff Sgt. Luis Rivera. A logistics advisor team of five Soldiers from the Illinois Army National Guard's 6th Battalion, 54th Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB) held a deployment ceremony on Sunday, Feb. 13, at Rock Island Arsenal, Ill. After a short time training in Texas, the


Three-year-old Jada Nimrick and her brother, 7-year-old Jeffrey Nimrick, their mother, Liz, and grandmother, Maria Rivera, listen to Col. Tim Newman, the Commander of the 108th Sustainment Brigade, speak to the team of deploying Soldiers. Jada and Jeffrey are the niece and nephew of the team's maintenance expert, Staff Sgt. Luis Rivera. A logistics advisor team of five Soldiers from the Illinois Army National Guard's 6th Battalion, 54th Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB) held a deployment ceremony on Sunday, Feb. 13, at Rock Island Arsenal, Ill. After a short time training in Texas, the team will join with the active duty Army's 5th SFAB based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., to deploy to Mongolia. The six-month deployment is the first for the Illinois National Guard's SFAB unit and represents the first SFAB to support the Indo-Pacific Command.


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