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Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Saturday recognized 270 Virginia National Guard soldiers in Lynchburg for their recent federal active duty in Africa as part of Task Force Red Dragon.
For 11 months over 1 thousand soldiers in the Virginia National Guard served in the Horn of Africa. They were the biggest American presence in Africa in decades.
The first group of National Guard soldiers from Task Force Red Dragon returned to Richmond on Thursday after being on active duty in the horn of Africa.
Tell us if you’ve heard this one before. “We didn’t really know what to expect and what we were going to walk into.” Sound familiar? Like something that National Guard soldiers and airmen, and a multitude of other military people, have said a few million times before? The speaker was Kentucky Army National Guard 1st Sgt. Richard Harris, the top enlisted soldier with B Company, 1st Battalion, 149th Infantry Regiment.
I was up at the National D-Day Memorial on the last Saturday of November to see our soldiers off, take photos and take notes. The Memorial was closed to the public but media was allowed in. The soldiers seemed glad to see the media giving their departure ceremony some coverage. It was cold, but I had watched the weather forecasts and was dressed appropriately. That and the fact that it was a sunny day meant that I didn't freeze.