National Guard bridgelayer and Combat Engineer Vehicle

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Here's a couple of pics taken during A.T. (Annual Training) at Camp Bowie near Brownwood, Texas. As a Texas State Guard unit we are seconded to a National Guard unit, ours being the 149th Aviation Battalion, 36th Combat Aviation Brigade based in Grand Prairie, Texas. They are presently returning from a very long 18 month deployment to Iraq where they lost 7 brave soldiers in a helicopter crash. The two vehicles aren't state-of-the-art but are still soldiering on. The bridgelayer is an M60A1 AVLB and the recovery vehicle is an M728 CEV.

SSgt Derek Heuring
436th Aviation Support Group
Texas State Guard