A Washington National Guard Chinook helicopter crew provided air lift support to Charlie Company, 52nd Infantry Regiment (Long Range Surveillance) as they conducted helo cast training on American Lake outside of Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. on Thursday, March 17, 2016.
First visit for the adjutant general since 2012 yields positive relationship building, knowledge sharing and better understanding of the Washington National Guard and Royal Thai Armed Forces opportunities.
More than 70 years ago, if you found soldiers from these two countries together on the same battlefield, it would have been against each other in a time of war. Japan is now one of our strongest and most loyal allies, and every year, members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force join U.S. military forces at Yakima Training Center (YTC) in September, for a joint exercise known as, Operation Rising Thunder.
"This organization is a family, It's got a pulse, it's got a rhythm, it has got lineage,” said Lt. Col. Brian O'Flynn, Commander, 111th Air Support Operations Squadron (ASOS) as he thanked the former commanders of the 111th ASOS who attends the 111th’s recent open house for being the ones in laying the foundation of his unit. “"If a squadron is not well brought up it never seems to right itself, this organization was well brought up, It...
