They had the longest continuous deployment of any United States ground combat military unit during Operation Iraqi Freedom. In Iraq for 22 months.

I have a couple friends in the Minnesota National Guard who's shown me pictures of all this stuff. This series is journalism at it's best and as a former journalist, I give it my stamp of approval.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080803/D92ATLUO1.html
Part one


http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080803/D92ATO103.html
Part two


When part three comes up I'll make a link for it in this thread.