Story by Sgt. Dajon Ferrell | Minnesota National Guard | 02.25.2012
The soldiers currently deployed with the 1st Brigade Combat Team come from more than 500 Minnesota communities, but they all have one thing in common. Each Soldier has a family they left behind to serve their country. One Minnesota-based volunteer group has made it their goal to bring Soldiers together with their family for a meal, even though they’re more than 6,000 miles away....
Courtesy Story | California Counterdrug Task Force | 10.18.2011
Nine puzzled recruits stare at a series of ropes and wonder how they’re going to use a 2 1/2-foot plank to cross them. Their goal is to get themselves and a box of "serum" across the five rope hurdles and over a wall to fictional disaster victims without touching the ground beneath them. They begin to reach over a starting line to bridge the first two ropes with the plank but they can barely......
