Capt Alan J. Roehrich, of the North Dakota Army National

Capt Alan J. Roehrich, of the North Dakota Army National Guard’s 164th Regional Training Institute, assists Brig. Gen. Awal Nagnimi, chief of Defense Forces for Benin (Forces Armees Beninois) in firing an M-16 rifle at the Guard’s Camp Grafton Training Center, near Devils Lake, N.D., May 3, 2015. The M16 is fitted with a training simulator called an “Ultimate Training Munition” that fires a paintball-type round for training. Nagnimi and other military representative from the Republic of Benin and Togolese Republic were in North Dakota this week participating in an engagement as part of the National Guard Bureau’s State Partnership Program (SPP). This is the first major activity with representatives from these partner nations to take place in North Dakota. (U.S. National Guard photo by Jonathan Haugen, North Dakota National Guard/Released)