New York Army National Guard Staff Sergeant Linda Nosbisch, from Lancaster, N.Y., is a military mom currently serving with Combined Joint Task Force Phoenix in Kabul Afghanistan. Nobisch has 10 years of military service as a Chaplain Assistant. She supervises all the chaplain assistants for the task force. Her oldest son is on active duty at Eglin AFB, Florida and her younger son is serving in the New York Air National Guard.
?Those who put on the uniform of our country show tremendous self-sacrifice and service to others,? said Maj. Gen. Joseph J. Taluto, The Adjutant General for the State of New York. ?I can think of no better group of military women more deserving of our military family?s praise than those serving women who balance their careers as Soldiers or Airmen and mothers for their children. They are heroes in their families, in their communities and deserve that recognition across our great state and our nation,? Taluto said. U.S. Army photo by Lt. Col. Paul Fanning. (RELEASED)

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