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Alaska Military Youth Academy

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176th Air Defense Squadron surveillance technician competes in arctic triathlon

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Alaska Military Youth Academy

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Maj. Gen. Torrence Saxe, adjutant general of
the Alaska National Guard and commissioner
of the Department of Military and Veterans
Affairs, stands with friends and brothers in
arms of Specialist Four Harmon in front of the
new Kodiak Reediness Center sign July 27,
2023, in Kodiak, Alaska.

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Alex Cleghorn, tribal council president of the
Tangirnaq Native Village, talks to more than
150 community members July 27, 2023, at the
Kodiak Reediness Center in Kodiak, Alaska.

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Coast Guardsmen from Coast Guard Air
Station Kodiak present the colors during the
memorialization ceremony July 27, 2023, at
the Kodiak Readiness Center in Kodiak,
Alaska. The Alaska Army National Guard
memorialized the Kodiak Armory Readiness
Center in honor of the service and sacrifice of
Kodiak native, Specialist Four Daniel Lee
Harmon, during a public ceremony.

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Maj. Gen. Torrence Saxe, adjutant general of
the Alaska National Guard and commissioner
of the Department of Military and Veterans
Affairs, talks to more than 150 community
members July 27, 2023, at the Kodiak
Readiness Center in Kodiak, Alaska.

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Maj. Patrick Gargan, left, presents Charity with an award for her strength and contributions supporting her husband, Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Grunst, right, throughout his career during his retirement ceremony July 21, 2023, at Camp Carroll on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.

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Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Grunst hugs his wife, Charity, as she is presented with an award from Maj. Patrick Gargan for her strength and contributions supporting her husband throughout his career during Grunst’s retirement ceremony July 21, 2023, at Camp Carroll on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.

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Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Grunst salutes the U.S. flag during his retirement ceremony July 21, 2023, at Camp Carroll on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Grunst joined the Alaska Army National Guard in 1989 and finished his 34-year career as the G3 operations sergeant major for the AKARNG.

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A pair of Alaska National Guardsmen use their phones to video Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Grunst parachute into his retirement ceremony July 21, 2023, at Camp Carroll on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Grunst joined the Alaska Army National Guard in 1989 and finished his 34-year career as the G3 operations sergeant major for the AKARNG.

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