Maj. Gen. Robbie Asher, adjutant general for Oklahoma, addresses family, friends and Oklahoma Army National Guard Soldiers with 1st Battalion, 179th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, during a deployment ceremony Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016 at First Moore Baptist Church in Moore, Oklahoma. The 179th is the first of two six-month rotations to the Ukraine as part of the Joint Multinational Training Group-Ukraine, a training mission focused on providing defensive and security training to Ukrainian forces within the Security Cooperation agreement.

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