The Hornet - April 2018

Women in Leadership Currently, five of the 14 Major Subordinate Command leadership positions in the North Carolina National Guard are held by females, a historic first within the state.

North Carolina National Guard Quarterly Issue

April 2018 www.nc.ng.mil

Director of Public Affairs Lt. Col. Matthew DeVivo matthew.r.devivo.mil@mail.mil

Inside this Issue:

Media Relations Capt. Matthew Boyle matthew.i.boyle.mil@mail.mil

Community Relations Maj. Michael Wilber michael.j.wilber2.mil@mail.mil

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145th Airlift Wing Public Affairs Tech. Sgt. Nathan Clark nathan.t.clark.mil@mail.mil

Writers/Photographers Sgt. 1st Class Robert Jordan robert.b.jordan2.mil@mail.mil Staff Sgt. Mary Junell mary.e.junell.mil@mail.mil Sgt. Jamar Pugh Jamar.m.Pugh.mil@mail.mil

Graphic Illustrator Sgt. Lisa Vines lisa.w.vines.mil@mail.mil

Social Media Sgt. Odaliska Almonte ncngpao@gmail.com The Hornet magazine is an authorized publication for members of the North Carolina National Guard. Contents of this publication are not necessarily the official views of or endorsed by the NCNG, United States Government or the Department of Defense. The editorial content of this publication is the responsibility of the Public Affairs Office of the NCNG. General comments and suggestions should be addressed to Mary.E.Junell.mil@mail.mil or call 984-664-6590.

Layout and design 1 by Staff Sgt. Mary Junell

On The Cover:

Currently, five of the 14 Major Subordinate Command leadership positions in the North Carolina National Guard are held by females, a historic first within the state. Shown here in a composite photo are, left - right, Col. Cristina Moore, 130th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade; Command Sgt. Maj. Elsa Gaver, 139th Regional Training Institute; Col. Anita Massey, 139th Regional Training Institute; Command Sgt. Maj. Diana Staton, 60th Troop Command; Chief Master Sgt. Susan Dietz, 145th Airlift Wing. (Photo Illustration by Staff Sgt. Mary Junell)

Army Day at Udairi Range in Kuwait, Pg. 13 U.S. Central Command Commander’s Conference Army Day was held at Udairi Range, Kuwait, Feb. 9, 2018.

NCNG Aviation at Elementary School, Pg. 21

The NCNG’s 449th Theater Aviation Brigade landed a UH 72 Lakota Helicopter on the field at Rogers Lane Elementary School, January 31, 2018.

N.C. Best Warrior Competition, Pg. 23

The NCNG held it’s annual Best Warrior Competition in Butner, N.C. March 2-5, 2018 with competitors from across the state.

2018 Military Ball, Pg. 27

Photos from the 2018 Combined Military Ball held in Asheville, N.C. on March 17, 2018.

Also in This Issue: News From The Nest, Pg. 3 Tank and Abrams Transport, Pg. 5 Aviation in Iraq, Pg. 7 Military Appreciation Day, Pg. 9 Armory Renaming, Pg. 11 Museum Groundbreaking, Pg. 19

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Fort Bragg, N.C. The North Carolina National Guard transported M1A1 Abrams Tanks and M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles with Heavy Equipment Transport (HET) vehicles to Fort Pickett, Virginia, via I-95, on Sunday, March 18, 2018. This is the first time the NC Guard is using HETs for a long-distance convoy.

The HET is the Army’s largest transport vehicle able to haul tremendous amounts of weight.

The Abrams Tanks and Bradley’s are heading to Fort Pickett to take part in NC Guard’s 30th Armored Brigade Combat Team’s gunnery training there.

“Never before has a movement of this magnitude been accomplished within North Carolina, let alone between two states,” said Chief Warrant Officer 3, Jennifer Maloy, NC Guard’s State Movement Officer.

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Besmaya, Iraq U.S. Army 1st Battalion, 244th Aviation Regiment (Assault) aviation officer, 2nd Lt. Jeremie Pennington, performs pre-flight checks on a UH-60 Black Hawk prior to a flight to Besmaya, Iraq, during the Iraq forward air control course livefire training exercise March 8, 2018. The U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, the New Zealand army and the Australian army partnered with Iraqi security forces students as part of a three-month course tailored to conduct close-air support techniques and close-combat attack training. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Leticia Samuels, 449th Combat Aviation Brigade)

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Raleigh, N.C. The North Carolina National Guard helped support the NHL’s Carolina Hurricane’s Military Appreciation Night at PNC Arena, Feb. 18, 2018.

Service members from across all branches were honored during the game, including two N.C. Air Guardsman, Maj. Michael Wilber and his wife Master Sgt. Erin Wilber, who had the opportunity to ride on the back of the iceresurfacing machines between the second and third period of the game.

Prior to the game, Soldiers with the 449th Theater Aviation Brigade landed a Blackhawk helicopter in front of the Arena, giving hockey fans a chance to interact with the aircraft. (Photo

by Staff Sgt. Mary Junell)

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NC Guard Renames Armories for fallen Soldiers Community Leaders, Family, friends and North Carolina National Guard (NCNG) Soldiers came together to dedicate four armories in honor of fallen Soldiers who lost their lives while deployed with the NCNG. The Lenior Readiness Center was renamed as the Sgt. Joshua Schmit Readiness Center on Jan. 18, 2018, the Morganton Readiness Center was renamed as the Sgt. Brandon L. Wallace Readiness Center on Jan. 18, 2018, The Belmont Readiness Center was renamed as the 1st Lt. Leevi K. Barnard Readiness Center on Feb. 8, 2018, and the Edenton Readiness Center was renamed as the Sgt. Jeremy Hardison Readiness Center on March 4, 2018.

There are several more armory renaming ceremonies scheduled throughout 2018.

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Soldiers are injured and black smoke signals mark the extraction site as the 1st Battalion, 244th Aviation Regiment (Assault), 449th Combat Aviation Brigade medical evacuation helicopters approach.

This was the training scenario for those participating in the combined arms live fire exercise marking the end of U.S. Central Command Commander’s Conference Army Day at Udairi Range, Kuwait, Feb. 9, 2018.

Army Day was comprised of Central Command (CENTCOM) key leaders, service component command teams and Kuwaiti counterparts in order to demonstrate to the CENTCOM commanders the complexity and depth of U.S. Army Central Command’s mission and responsibilities in theater.

“Being able to prepare for an event of this size as well as maintain our existing operational tempo for day-to-day operations was certainly a challenge,” said Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Todd Hammett, a UH-60

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Soldiers with 1st Battalion, 35th Armored Regiment update a combat medic with 1st Battalion, 244th Aviation Regiment (Assault), 449th Combat Aviation Brigade, prior to loading a simulated-wounded casualty onto a UH-60 Blackhawk during Army Day at Camp Buehring Feb 9, 2018. Photo by Staff Sgt. Leticia Samuels

Black Hawk pilot. “Everyone pulled together and worked through obstacles, especially our maintainers.”

Army Day included numerous training events and was attended by multiple distinguished visitors to include U.S. Army Gen. Joseph L. Votel, commander of U.S. Central Command and U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Michael X. Garrett, commanding general of Army Central Command.

The CENTCOM commanders traveled from Ali Al-Salem airfield to various locations around Kuwait via rotary wing aircraft to observe the arrival, movement and maneuver of various teams supporting a unified training scenario.

To ensure key leaders did not miss events, assets from A Company, 1st Battalion, 126th Aviation Regiment, 449th Combat Aviation Brigade and A Company, 1-244th Assault Helicopter Battalion were tasked with providing

air movement support. As the flight lead, Hammett was the primary planner for the event.

The MEDEVAC operations were important because they simulated timely movement and en route care provided by medical personnel to wounded Soldiers being evacuated from the battlefield.

“Extensive planning went into this,” said Hammett.

“The 1-126th General Support Aviation Battalion and the 244th AHB worked together to ensure we had a solid plan and the resources to back it up. We did several rehearsals leading up to the day of execution in order to validate our plan and refine our methods.”

The culminating live fire event included infantry, armor, artillery and aviation to demonstrate the coalition operations as Task Force Spartan. Army Day allowed TF Spartan to demonstrate its lethality, flexibility and interoperability.

UH-60 Blackhawks approach a beach to pick up distinguished visitors during Army Day at Kuwait Naval Base Feb. 9, 2018.

Photo by Chief Warrant Officer 4 Tim Brundage

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Story by Capt. Briana McFarland

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the 1st Battalion, 35th Armored Regiment race down range in an M2 Bradley tank to simulate rescuing a wounded soldier during Army Day at Camp Buehring Feb 9, 2018.

Photo by Staff Sgt. Leticia Samuels

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The North Carolina National Guard (NCNG) is comprised of seven Major Subordinate Commands(MSC), each with a command team; the commander and an enlisted leader.

Five of those 14 leadership positions in the NCNG are currently held by females, which means 33% of the senior leadership are currently women.

The NCNG is comprised of almost 12,000 Soldiers and Airmen, 19% of whom are women, making 33% sound like a historic high.

For North Carolina, it is.

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his is the first time in NCNG history that this many positions in the MSC command teams have been held by women at the same time. For several of the MSCs, it is the first time a female has been in that senior position within the unit.

“It’s been fairly similar to all the other experiences in my military career,” said Col. Cristina Moore, the first female commander for the 130th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, Charlotte. “The engineer corps doesn’t have a large quantity of females so throughout my entire career there’s often times when I’ve been the first female to be in those positions and we’ve got a great military and great organization and I’m a Soldier just like everybody else.”

Being women has nothing to do with them achieving this level of success in their military careers, but it is an achievement to be the first to hold their positions, something most of them are still getting used to.

“I don’t know what the difference would be,” said Chief Master Sgt. Susan Dietz, the first female Command Chief

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Master Sergeant for the 145th Airlift Wing, Charlotte. “No one treats me any differently than they did my male counterparts I don’t believe. I’ve had a little bit more focus for being the first female, but it’s almost a little uncomfortable because I didn’t get the position because I’m a female. I worked really hard to be where I am, it just happens that I am a female.”

Many women who have been in the military as long as some of these historic leaders have seen the service drastically change over the years, making it easier for themselves and other females to achieve their goals.

When Command Sgt. Maj. Diana Staton joined the service in 1982, the only job available to her that was similar to what her male counter parts was driving a truck as a Motor Transport Operator.

“We’ve come along way,” said Staton, the first female enlisted leader for 60th Troop Command in Raleigh. “Now females can go into Armor, Artillery, and other [branches] where women weren’t allowed to go into. It gives them a lot more opportunities to become

a senior enlisted leader.”

Over the years, more and more women are being promoted into positions in the NCNG where women have never been before, something that Moore points out as a highlight of the N.C. Guard.

“I think that a true strength and illustration of an organization’s capability to have diversified is that people get into these positions not with the recognition of being a female or a minority, it’s on our merits,” Moore said.

Moore, who started her career with the NCNG in 2002 after serving on active duty, said she has never felt the distinction of being a female.

“It’s along my merits of leadership, my operations background and my experiences that have gotten me to the positions I’ve been in,” she said.

“I feel like I’ve been competitive every step of the way.”

For many Soldiers and Airmen in the NCNG today, it is common to see women at all levels of leadership, not because of their gender, but because they happened to be the best person for the job.

Command Sgt. Maj. Elsa Gaver, the enlisted leader for the 139th Regional Training Institute (139th RTI) at Fort Bragg, believes this is why it is becoming a normal occurrence across the NCNG to see women in these roles.

“It is a normal thing for us

here,” she said. “We go on who is the best person for the job, when the job is coming open, whether that is a male or a female. Right now, it’s just the time when the females are taking those positions and it’s very humbling to be here at this time because I was given the opportunity to take a command as a female.”

Not only is Gaver the first female senior enlisted leader at the 139th RTI, she is part of the first all female command team with Col. Anita Massey, the unit’s commander.

Massey said she recently came across a speech about equality by Maj. Julie Austin, the daughter of Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Beth Austin who was the first female two-

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star General to come out of the NCNG. “She said that ‘Women’s equality means not seeing gender at all. Whether you are a male or a female we possess unique skills that set us apart and by working together as a team, we’re able to make the U.S. Army successful.’ That stands also true in the NCNG,” Massey said. “I totally believe in what she said, because as a team, we don’t look at differences, we look at what we bring together and combine.”

Now that the door to these positions are continuing to open to women, they will not be the last women to achieve this level of leadership in their careers.

“I see other women around

the [Airlift] Wing and they say, ‘I want to be where you are one day,’ and I tell them you can,” Dietz said. “I’m not going to be the last female command chief by any means. We will have many more.”

These women are not just leaders, they are also role models, setting the example for younger Soldiers and Airmen, no matter their gender.

“This is our color, this is what we are,” Dietz said while grabbing at the shirt collar of her uniform to illustrate that all service members wear a similar uniform. “It isn’t anything else, and when we see each other like that, it all works better.”

“Women’s equality means not seeing gender at all.

Whether you are a male or a female we possess unique skills that set us apart and by working together as a team, we’re able to make the U.S. Army successful.”

Currently, five of the 14 Major Subordinate Command leadership positions in the North Carolina National Guard (NCNG) are held by females, a historic first within the state.

Shown here in a composite photo are, left - right, Col. Cristina Moore, 130th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade; Command Sgt. Maj. Elsa Gaver, 139th Regional Training Institute; Col. Anita Massey, 139th Regional Training Institute; Command Sgt. Maj. Diana Staton, 60th Troop Command; Chief Master Sgt. Susan Dietz, 145th Airlift Wing.

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NCNG Museum breaks ground Story and Photos by Sgt. Wayne Becton Local, state and North Carolina National Guard (NCNG) leaders attended a groundbreaking ceremony at the NCNG’s Joint Force Headquarters, on Feb. 13, 2018, to celebrate the beginning of construction for the NCNG Museum and Learning Center of Excellence.

The new museum will be built on the grounds of Joint Force Headquarters and receives donated items form retires, former Soldier’s families and other organizations.

Sgt. Gary Spencer, the curator and historian for the North Carolina National Guard Museum, hopes the new museum will enhance the community and service members who visit.

“We hope to provide the professional development for the National Guard and Air Guard,” Spencer said. “Retirees and their families will be able visit and learn about North Carolina and its Soldiers.”

The museum will feature artifacts that tell the story of the NCNG Citizen-Soldier.

“It builds on the traditions established by the [N.C.] National Guard for the 355 years that it has been around,” said Jay Callaham, Vice President of the Old Hickory Association. “These artifacts simply provide visual evidence and direct link to past epics.”

Larry Hall, Secretary for the North Carolina Department of Military & Veterans Affairs(left) and U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Gregory Lusk, the Adjutant General(right) participate in the NCNG Museum and Learning Center of Excellence groundbreaking ceremony at Joint Force Headquarters in Raleigh, N.C., February 13, 2018

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U.S. Army Lt. Col. John Ebbighausen, Deputy Director for Strategic Plans and Policy for the NCNG, who attended the ceremony, said the museum helps capture the history of N.C. Soldiers.

“When we close down units the unit colors, trophies and other artifacts goes to a small container and/or disappears,” Ebbighausen said.

“As units come and go, we can maintain our linage. We can control our history instead of some else controlling it.”

The museum has been in the works for more than 60 years and the groundbreaking is the first big step towards seeing it become a reality.

Larry Hall, Secretary for the North Carolina Department of Military & Veterans Affairs speaks during the groundbreaking ceremony for the NCNG Museum and Learning Center of Excellence at Joint Force Headquarters in Raleigh, N.C., February 13, 2018.

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NCNG Aviation Soldiers enhance education at Rogers Lane Elementary School

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oldiers with the North Carolina National Guard’s 449th Theater Aviation Brigade (449th TAB) landed a UH 72 Lakota Helicopter on the field at Rogers Lane Elementary School, January 31, 2018.

The Soldiers were invited with the help of the school’s Personalized Learning Coach, Heather Collins, whose husband is the commander of the 1-130th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, 449th TAB, as part of a career and character event for the students at the school.

“The kids at the school benefit one-hundred percent from seeing how they can apply their school skills outside the walls of the building,” Collins said. “Any opportunity we have to connect real world experiences to our students’ learning, we take advantage of.”

The Soldiers who arrived in the helicopter included pilots, helicopter maintenance, crew chiefs and administrative support, giving the children a wide scope of ways their education could be applied outside the workforce.

Collins said that leading up to the event, student’s learned about helicopters in the classroom, helping the students to ask more thoughtful questions.

“The earlier we can get these

character traits instilled in the children, those parallel skills to academics, those life skills, the better we can get them progressed towards college and career readiness.”

Lt. Col. Benny Collins, commander of the 1-130th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, 449th TAB said that is was important that the Soldiers talked to the students about skills that will help the children later in life, regardless of if they join the military of not.

“One of the reasons we came out was to talk about a few specific things like integrity, honesty, being honest with each other and what it takes to for us to trust each other in our job, between pilot, mechanic and crew chief,and the fact that when we say something to each other it’s true,” said Lt. Col. Benny Collins, commander of the 1-130th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, 449th TAB. “We talked about having to finish school, to get a high school diploma, how in life and in the military that is very important.”

Lt. Col. Benny Collins, commander of the 1-130th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, 449th Theater Aviation Brigade talks to the crew of an incoming UH 72 Lakota Helicopter at Rogers Lane Elementary School in Raleigh, N.C., January 31, 2018.

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A UH 72 Lakota Helicopter from the 449th Theater Aviation Brigade, lands in the field at Rogers Lane Elementary School in Raleigh, N.C., January 31, 2018.

Spc. Kendell Smith, an Apachee Helicopter mechanic, 449th Theater Aviation Brigade, answers questions from students at Rogers Lane Elementary School in Raleigh, N.C., January 31, 2018.

Chief Warrant Officer 5 Ty Mullins, a UH 72 Lakota Helicopter Pilot with the 449th Theater Aviation Brigade, talks to students at Rogers Lane Elementary School in Raleigh, N.C., after landing the Lakota Helicopter he piloted there, January 31, 2018.

Lt. Col. Benny Collins, commander of the 1-130th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, 449th Theater Aviation Brigade answers questions from students at Rogers Lane Elementary School in Raleigh, N.C., January 31, 2018.

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Sgt. Travis Millard of the 30th Armored Brigade Combat Team, views a map in the Call for Fire exercise during the NCNG Best Warrior Competition at Camp Butner, North Carolina, March 3, 2018. Photo by Sgt. Wayne Becton.

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N.C. Guardsmen compete to be named the 2018 'Best Warriors' Story By Sgt. Odaliska Almonte

Nine Soldiers from across the state represented their Major Subordinate Command and competed to be named Best Warrior in the North Carolina National Guard’s Best Warrior Competition at the Camp Butner National Guard Training Center, March 2-5, 2018.

Soldiers compete in the hopes to be named the ‘Best Warriors’ of the North Carolina National Guard and the opportunity to represent our state in the Region III Competition in April 2018.

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Soldiers start the morning of day 2 of the NCNG Best Warrior Competition with a 12-mile ruck march testing their endurance at Camp Butner, N.C., March 4, 2018.

Photo by Sgt. Odaliska Almonte.

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hrough the years the competition has progressed to put the service members through physical and mental stressors that are meant to bring out the best in our Soldiers.

“I love how the competition has evolved to include physical skills like fitness tests, Army Warrior Tasks, stress shoots, urban operations, and ruck march,” said Command Sgt. Maj. John H. Swart, Command Senior Enlisted Leader. “As a participant many years ago, the competition consisted mainly on an administrative board where they looked at your physical fitness card and your weapons score card.”

Every year the competition continues to improve to not only bring the best in the Soldiers, but to train them in the skills and tasks they’re not as familiar with on their regular drill days.

“Not all Soldiers are versed on the weapons, some of them are more ‘behind the scenes’ on doing the support tasks. Having them out here getting their Soldiers skills helps get them to the next level,” said Sgt. Maj. Elsa Gaver, G1 Personnel Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge.

Even participants who thought they were already giving their best find themselves surprised to find that they had even more to offer, like Sgt. Adrian Dumas, representing the 139th Regiment-Regional Training Institute.

“I was really surprised when I got to the physical fitness test and I performed better than I ever had in my life and at a later age,” said Sgt. Dumas, 139th Regiment

competitor. “I wasn’t this competitive in my 20s and 30s, so I feel like this competition has pushed me to another level.”

The four day competition consisted of tests of physical and mental endurance that include physical fitness, army warrior tasks and drills, land navigation, road march, weapons qualification, a stress shoot course, urban operations, and the Non-Commissioned Officer/Soldier review board.

At the end of day four the Soldiers found out who would move on to represent the N.C. National Guard in the Region III Competition on April 2018.

The competitors moving on to represent the N.C. Guard are Sgt. Travis Millard and Spc. Steven McMahon, both Soldiers of the 1-252nd Armor Regiment, 30th Armored Brigade Combat Team.

Both, Sgt. Millard and Spc. McMahon, have moved up together from the Battalion and Brigade Best Warrior Competitions.

“It’s been good to have Sgt. Millard by my side. He has been a great mentor as we’ve been going through the different competitions,” said Spc. Steven McMahon. “It’s been a lot of fun to get through each competition together and move up together, it’s the best part of it.”

Ultimately all Soldiers leave the competition having learned something new they can take back and share with their fellow Soldiers in their units.

“It doesn’t matter if they come in first or they come in last, each and everyone of these Soldiers are learning something and getting something out of this,” Gaver said.

Soldiers qualify with the M9 pistol during a live fire exercise event during the NCNG Best Warrior Competition at Camp Butner, North Carolina, March 4, 2018. Photo by Sgt. Wayne Becton.

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The 2018 Combined Military Ball Photos by Staff Sgt. B rendan Stephens

Family, Friends and members of the National Guard community celebrate during the North Carolina National Guard's Joint Combined Military Ball on Saturday, March. 17, 2018. This event was held in conjunction with N.C. National Guard Convention at the Crowne Plaza Resort in Ahseville, North Carolina.

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