Air Force Col. Greg Hawkesworth, the North Carolina

Air Force Col. Greg Hawkesworth, the North Carolina National Guard’s 145th Medical Group Commander, left, and Senior Airman Amy Amakihe, with the New Jersey National Guard’s 108th Medical Group, work with Botswana Defense Force service members to provide free blood pressure screenings at a community in Molepolole, Botswana on July 15, 2019. More than 170 Army and Air Guardsmen from North Carolina, Alabama, and New Jersey trained in partnership with their Botswana Defense Force counterparts during Upward Minuteman 2019, a U.S. Africa Command exercise promoting the U.S. National Guard’s State Partnership Programs on the African Continent. (U.S. Army Photo by Staff Sgt. Mary Junell)