Guest speaker, Lt. Col. (Retired) John Norton Jr. gives a farewell speech to the Fox Company Pathfinders assigned to 2nd Assault Helicopter Battalion, at a deactivation ceremony at Simmons Army Airfield, at Fort Bragg, , Feb. 24. This tradition echoes the Pathfinder motto, “First in, last out.”

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