Honorary enlistee Rowan Windham gets a tour of CH-47 Chinook by Staff Sgt. Clay Jenkins, a flight engineer with the 2nd Battalion, 149th Aviation Regiment, Texas Army National Guard. Windham was honorarily enlisted into the Texas Army National Guard at a ceremony held at Camp Mabry in Austin, Texas, March 27, 2015. Windham is battling a rare disorder, Shwachmann-Diamond Syndrome, which affects the pancreas, gastro-intestinal tract, immune system, blood and bone marrow. During one of his stays at the Children's Hospital in San Antonio, Windham met Sgt. David Hixson, a medic with the Texas Army


Honorary enlistee Rowan Windham gets a tour of CH-47 Chinook by Staff Sgt. Clay Jenkins, a flight engineer with the 2nd Battalion, 149th Aviation Regiment, Texas Army National Guard. Windham was honorarily enlisted into the Texas Army National Guard at a ceremony held at Camp Mabry in Austin, Texas, March 27, 2015. Windham is battling a rare disorder, Shwachmann-Diamond Syndrome, which affects the pancreas, gastro-intestinal tract, immune system, blood and bone marrow. During one of his stays at the Children's Hospital in San Antonio, Windham met Sgt. David Hixson, a medic with the Texas Army National Guard. There, Windham shared his dream of always wanting to be a Soldier and, soon after, Hixson, with the help of fellow Texas National Guardsmen, made it all possible. ( Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Malcolm McClendon) Texas Military Forces honors cancer fighter at honorary enlistment ceremony 150327-Z-FG822-036


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