Tennessee Guardsman first to be awarded CAB

GXOnline:

“It’s an honor to accept this award on behalf of my fellow National Guard Soldiers who are in harms way and still fighting,” said SGT Gustafson who lost his right leg beneath the knee on Jan. 24 after a road-side bomb detonated. “It’s somewhat of a burden that I’m not there with them right now.”

SGT Gustafson was serving in Iraq with his unit, the 1st Battalion, 278th Field Artillery when his convoy came under attack.

GXOnline also carries this about the WIANG and TNANG at Balad:

At the Iraqi army training facility here the soldiers are taught how to set up traffic control points, identify improvised explosive devices and vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices, conduct personnel searches, distinguish between insurgents and civilians and how to react to enemy contact.

Task Force 1-128 Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 128th Infantry Regiment, Wisconsin Army National Guard and Troop K, 3rd Squadron, 278th Armored Calvary Regiment, Tennessee Army National Guard are conducting the training.