Army Command Sgt. Maj. David Windham of the Washington National Guard’s 81st Brigade stands with his fellow citizen-Soldiers at a motor pool on Balad Air Base, Iraq, March 1 during a visit by Air Force Gen. Craig R. McKinley, chief of the National Guard Bureau and Army Command Sgt. Maj. David Ray Hudson, senior enlisted leader of the National Guard Bureau. Windham overseas a convoy security brigade of 1,100 Guard Soldiers who have logged more than 500,000 miles protecting convoys from roadway improvised explosives and ambushes. Air Force Master Sgt. Mike R. Smith, National Guard Bureau

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