Senior leaders from the Virginia National Guard's

Senior leaders from the Virginia National Guard's Staunton-based Infantry Brigade Combat Team visit with brigade Soldiers on duty supporting Joint Readiness Training Center rotation 16-04, Feb. 24, 2016, at Fort Polk, Louisiana. Col. William J. Coffin, commander of the 116th IBCT, Command Sgt. Maj. Thomas H. Yancey, 116th IBCT command sergeant major, and other senior leaders of the 116th IBCT met with Soldiers assigned to the Hanover-based Battery A, 1st Battalion, 111th Field Artillery, the Charlottesville-based Company C, 429th Brigade Support Battalion, and the Fredericksburg-based Company A, 116th Brigade Special Troops Battalion. More than 150 Soldiers provided engineer and field artillery augmentation to the resident opposing force, or OPFOR, as well as medical support. (U.S. Army National Guard Master Sgt. Andrew J. Coyne)