Incoming and outgoing commanders, staff leaders and

Incoming and outgoing commanders, staff leaders and guest speakers salute during the playing of the U.S. and Turkish national anthems during the Multinational Battle Group-East Southern Command Post transition of authority ceremony, Feb. 29, 2016, at Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo. The outgoing 1st Battalion, 169th Aviation Regiment, part of the Connecticut Army National Guard, completed a nine-month tour in support of NATO’s Kosovo Force peace support mission, and is replaced by Task Force Red Hawks, led by the Arizona National Guard’s 2-285th Attack Helicopter Battalion, out of Phoenix. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Gina Russell, Multinational Battle Group-East)