Welcome Home

Staff Sgt. Bennet Groth, a member of the 185th Air Refueling Wing in Sioux City, Iowa, is welcome back, along with the 64 soldiers and airmen from the 734th Agri-Business Development Team (ADT) on June 25, 2011, at Johnston High School, Johnston, Iowa. The 734th ADT was the first joint Iowa Army and Air National Guard unit to be deployed overseas. USAF Photo TSGT Brian Cox (Released).

Welcome Home

Governor Terry Branstad and Maj. Gen. Timothy Orr welcome back the 64 soldiers and airmen from the 734th Agri-Business Development Team (ADT) on June 25, 2011, at Johnston High School, Johnston, Iowa. The 734th ADT was the first joint Iowa Army and Air National Guard unit to be deployed overseas. USAF Photo TSGT Brian Cox (Released).

ADT Team Works with Afghanistan Farmers

U.S. Army Sgt. Tanner Ruble, a military policeman with the Iowa National Guard's 734th Agri-Business Development Team of the Iowa National Guard, provides security as U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Bennett Groth, production agriculture specialist for the ADT, speaks through an interpreter to Mohammed Ismael, manager of the Salar Bagh Demonstration Farm, Sept. 21, 2010. The farm is owned and operated by the government of Kunar Province near Asadabad, Afghanistan. The soldier and airman were part of a mission to assess the farm, which produces corn, soybeans, tea and locust trees for timber. The ADT found the demonstration farm to be superbly run and the farm manager to have a high degree of agricultural expertise, leading the ADT to focus on methods of transferring the farm manager's skill-set to farmers throughout the province. (Photo by Capt. Peter Shinn, Combined Joint Task Force 101)

Iowa National Guard Leaders Send-Off Agri-Business Development Team

Col. Brian Miller, Commander of the 185th Air Refueling Wing, left, shares a smile with Brig. General Timothy Orr, the Adjutant General for the State of Iowa, right foreground, as the senior Iowa National Guard leaders send-off members of Iowa's 734th Agri-Business Development Team from Camp Atterbury, Ind., to their agricultural mission in Afghanistan.

Enjoying the Family Send-Off Picnic

Family, friends and members of the 734th Agri-Business Development Team enjoy the meal provided by Iowa ag producer groups and food companies at the June 30 Family Send-Off Picnic for the Team. USAF Photo Capt. Peter Shinn, 734th ADT Public Affairs (Released)

Enjoying the Family Send-Off Picnic

Master Sgt. Dean Kennebeck, left, and his wife, Angela Kennebeck, right, Co-Directors of the Iowa National Guard's 734th Agri-Business Development Team Family Support Group, share a smile with Spec. Martin Rustvoldt, a diversified grain and livestock farmer who is part of ADT's Security Forces Section, during the Team's Family Send-Off Picnic on June 30th. USAF Photo Capt. Peter Shinn, 734th ADT Public Affairs (Released)