Army Staff Sgt. Adam Fodge, Howitzer Section Chief, Gun One, 1st Platoon, Alpha Battery, 2nd Battalion, 218th Field Artillery, 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Oregon Army National Guard slides a cover over the barrel of his team's M119A Howitzer to prepare it to for sling-load by a CH-47, F-Model Chinook helicopter during an artillery training mission, Operation Thunderstruck, June 20, 2015, at the Yakima Training Center near Yakima, Wash. Alpha Battery will celebrate its 150th anniversary this coming February and is one of the oldest artillery batteries east of the Mississippi River.

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Army Staff Sgt. Adam Fodge, Howitzer Section Chief, Gun One, 1st Platoon, Alpha Battery, 2nd Battalion, 218th Field Artillery, 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Oregon Army National Guard slides a cover over the barrel of his team's M119A Howitzer to prepare it to for sling-load by a CH-47, F-Model Chinook helicopter during an artillery training mission, Operation Thunderstruck, June 20, 2015, at the Yakima Training Center near Yakima, Wash. Alpha Battery will celebrate its 150th anniversary this coming February and is one of the oldest artillery batteries east of the Mississippi River. (Oregon Army National Guard Capt. Leslie Reed, 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs)

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