Shackles and Shrapnel – Citizen-Soldier

Shackles and Shrapnel

A group of Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 117th Field Artillery Regiment, Alabama Army National Guard – which is assigned to the 142nd Field Artillery Brigade – prepare to fire an M777 Towed Howitzer during Operation Western Strike 2018 at Camp Guernsey, Wyo. Arkansas Army National Guard Photo by SSG Kelvin Green

Western Strike Explodes over the Wyoming Horizon

Operation Western Strike was not your average artillery exercise. It was in fact a 20-year first for the Arkansas Army National Guard’s 142nd Field Artillery Brigade….