146th ASOS and 1/34th ABCT build continued partnership in warfighter exercise

Minnesota Army National Guardsman Capt. Charles Hollenback, brigade fires direction officer with the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division (1/34th ABCT), and Oklahoma Air National Guardsman Staff Sgt. Jeremy Long, a brigade tactical air control party team sergeant assigned to the 146th Air Support Operations Squadron (146th ASOS), discuss close air support tactics on map during a brigade Warfighter exercise (WFX 19-12) held at Camp Ripley near Little Falls, Minn., May 13, 2019. The 24-hour continuous, graded exercise, which is the second of three exercises that U.S. Army and National Guard units are required to complete before deployment, tests the units at the brigade level before heading to the final and more applied exercise at the National Training Center (NTC), in Fort Irwin, Calif. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Kasey M. Phipps)