Maj. Gen. Raymond Carpenter, retired, former acting

Maj. Gen. Raymond Carpenter, retired, former acting director of the Army National Guard, talks to the South Dakota Army National Guard’s field maintenance shop for the 842nd Engineer Company about being the first Army National Guard unit to receive four new 120M motorized road graders during a fielding ceremony May 17, 2012, in Sturgis, S.D. The need for new and improved equipment has been in the works for the past six years at the National Guard Bureau level when it became evident during natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Greensburg, Kan., tornado in 2007. (SDNG photo by Master Sgt. Donald Matthews)