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U.S. Army Sgt. Brandan Hodges rides in a CH-47D Chinook helicopter during a mission for Exercise Vigilant Guard near the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center in Indiana on May 12, 2007. More than 2,000 National Guard personnel are taking part in Vigilant Guard, an 11-day exercise that tests the National Guard as first military responders in support of the governor and the state emergency management agency. Hodges is assigned as a flight engineer with the Michigan Army National Guard.

U.S. Army Sgt. Brandan Hodges rides in a CH-47D Chinook helicopter.

U.S. Army Sgt. Brandan Hodges rides in a CH-47D Chinook helicopter during a mission for Exercise Vigilant Guard near the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center in Indiana on May 12, 2007. More than 2,000 National Guard personnel are taking part in Vigilant Guard, an 11-day exercise that tests the National Guard as first military responders in support of the governor and the state emergency management agency. Hodges is assigned as a flight engineer with the Michigan Army National Guard.

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