Photo by Staff Sgt. Anna Rutherford | 1249th Engineer Battalion | 08.27.2011
Task Force Gridley, 1249th Engineer Battalion, Nebraska Army National Guard soldier Staff Sgt. Jermiah Houlden is followed by a trail vehicle during the last night of the Hood to Coast Satellite Run held on Forward Operating Base Sharana in the early morning hours of Aug. 28, 2011. Participating runners in the relay race included National Guard soldiers from Oregon and Nebraska, as well as......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Anna Rutherford | 1249th Engineer Battalion | 04.20.2011
Staff Sgt. Christopher Herndon of Task Force Gridley, 623rd Engineer Company, Nebraska National Guard stuffs backpacks with wooden toys courtesy of the Woodworkers’ Club in Lakeland, Fla., school supplies courtesy of the students and faculty at West Salem High School in Salem, Ore., and candy courtesy of Operation Shoebox in Belleview, Fla. The backpacks will be distributed to orphans in the......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Anna Rutherford | 1249th Engineer Battalion | 03.21.2011
Spc. Conklin of the 623 Engineer Company, Task Force Gridley, Nebraska National Guard, shuffles past the halfway point during the 5-mile road march portion of the Task Force Gridley soldier of the Quarter Competition on March 21 in Paktika province, Afghanistan. The road march was the first event in a series of competitive tasks the soldiers had to accomplish throughout the day....
Photo by Staff Sgt. Anna Rutherford | 1249th Engineer Battalion | 03.21.2011
Spc. Conklin of the 623rd Engineer Company, Task Force Gridley, Nebraska National Guard, writes his essay during the last event of the day for the Task Force Gridley Soldier of the Quarter Competition on March 21 in Paktika province, Afghanistan. Competitors were tasked to write a two-page essay addressing the question “Why am I in Afghanistan?”...
