Boots on Strategic Ground

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.

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