Family, friends and fellow service members gathered to celebrate the promotion of Kevin Vines from Colonel to Brigadier General January 12, 2019, at Robinson Maneuver Training Center, North Little Rock, Ark.
Brig. Gen. Vines joined the Arkansas National Guard in 1989 and is currently the Director of the Joint Staff.
(U.S. Army National Guard video by OC Charles D. Davis and Staff Sgt. Kelvin Green)
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Justin Levon Ashley, 31 of North Little Rock, Ark., died in an airplane crash at the Camden Municipal Airport / Harrell Field, in Camden, Ark. on Sept. 24. Ashley was one of two Arkansas Guardsmen killed in the accident.
Arkansas' governor, Asa Hutchinson, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue, along with Arkansas Senator John Boozman, Arkansas Congressional delegates Rick Crawford, French Hill, the director of the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management, AJ Gary,
and the Adjutant General of the Arkansas National Guard, Maj. Gen. Mark H. Berry, flew in Lakota and Black Hawk helicopters provided by the Arkansas National Guard to observe and assess...
