Photo by Master Sgt. Duff E. McFadden | Joint Force Headquarters - Iowa National Guard | 04.09.2016
1st Lt. Thomas Bentley, executive officer for the 832nd Engineer Company, 224th Engineer Battalion, Iowa Army National Guard....
Photo by Master Sgt. Duff E. McFadden | Joint Force Headquarters - Iowa National Guard | 04.09.2016
Staff Sgt. Steven Russell, a supply sergeant with Company B, 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry, and 1st Lt. Thomas Bentley, executive officer for the 832nd Engineer Company, 224th Engineer Battalion, both with the Iowa Army National Guard. This pair of seasoned sappers represented the Iowa National Guard in the 10th annual U.S. Army Best Sapper Competition, held at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo....
Photo by Master Sgt. Duff E. McFadden | Joint Force Headquarters - Iowa National Guard | 04.09.2016
Staff Sgt. Steven Russell, a supply sergeant with Company B, 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry, performs a personal search on his training partner, 1st Lt. Thomas Bentley, the executive officer for the 832nd Engineer Company, 224th Engineer Battalion, both of the Iowa Army National Guard. This dynamic duo represented the National Guard at the 10th annual U.S. Army Best Sapper competition at Fort......
Photo by Master Sgt. Duff E. McFadden | Joint Force Headquarters - Iowa National Guard | 04.09.2016
1st Lt. Thomas Bentley, executive officer for the Iowa Army National Guard's 832nd Engineer Company, 224th Engineer Battalion, prepares to work on his rappelling as he readies for the 10th annual U.S. Army Best Sapper competition at Fort Wood, Mo....
Photo by Staff Sgt. Chad Nelson | 135th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 07.20.2014
(From left to right) Sgt. Ben Taylor of Oskaloosa, Iowa; Pfc. Timothy Houston-Nichols of Winfield, Iowa, both combat engineers with the 832nd Engineer Company; and Pfc. Devaun Leeham of Andrew, Iowa, a multi-channel transmission systems operator-maintainer with 67th Troop Command, view downrage M2 Browning Machine Gun range. The Soldiers were qualifying on the "Ma Deuce" machine gun as part......
Photo by 1st Sgt. JD Phippen | 135th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 07.20.2014
Pfc. Timothy Nichols-Houston of Winfield, Iowa, a combat engineer with the 832nd Engineer Company, Iowa Army National Guard, fires an M2 machine gun at a target 800 meters away. Nichols-Houston, 19, has only been in the National Guard for a year, and fired the "Ma Deuce" Browning Machine Gun for the first time as part of his two-week annual training at Fort McCoy, Wis. (Iowa Army National......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Ryan Matson | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division | 03.17.2011
U.S. Army Spc. Cody Pinkerman, right, a demolition team member from Mount Pleasant, Iowa, with the 832nd Engineer Company, part of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry “Red Bulls” Division, scales a wall with his .249 squad automatic weapon March 17 in the town of Sheykhan, Afghanistan. The company had been hit by an improvised explosive device their last time through the town, which......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Ryan Matson | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division | 03.17.2011
U.S. Army Sgt. Mitchell Songer, left, demolition team leader from Ottumwa, Iowa, with the 832nd Engineer Company, part of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 34th Infantry “Red Bulls” Division, and U.S. Army Spc. Cody Pinkerman, right, a demolition team member from Mount Pleasant, Iowa, pull security March 17 in the town of Sheykhan, Afghanistan. The company had been hit by an improvised......
