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Specialist David Tinker,a member of the New York Army National Guard from Herkimer,New York, checks the oil level of a humvee during morning preventative maintenance checks and services at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Patriot at Fort Bragg , North Carolina.
Tinker and other members of the 27th Brigade Combat Team are conducting post-mobilization training at Fort Bragg prior to deploying to Afghanistan in April.
The unit arrived at Fort Bragg on January 20 and is participating in �Theater Immersion Training� in which soldiers live on a FOB similar to the one they will be based at in Afghanistan. Soldiers wear body armor and carry weapons routinely. The training day begins at 5:30 in the morning and runs until 8 p.m.
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Spectrum News -- Wed, 23 Sep 2026 Military airman wounded in deadly crash takes 'final flight' in New York The only survivor of a helicopter crash that killed two of his fellow New York Army National Guard members took his symbolic "final flight" on a UH-60M Black Hawk last week in Latham. ... (more)
NationalGuard.mil -- Tue, 22 Sep 2026 New York Army Guard Aviators Train for Wildfire Response SCHUYLERVILLE, N.Y. New York Army National Guard UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter crews honed their ability to fight wildfires with massive water-filled buckets Sept. 18, training above the Hudson... (more)
NationalGuard.mil -- Fri, 18 Sep 2026 New York Guardsmen Return from Middle East Deployments TROY, N.Y. Five hundred New York Army National Guard Soldiers assigned to the 42nd Infantry who deployed to the Middle East in June 2025 and eventually conducted combat operations against... (more)
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