Musicians with the Botswana Defense Force and the North

Musicians with the Botswana Defense Force and the North Carolina National Guard’s 440th Army Band play traditional and popular music together for an audience of U.S. Army and Air National Guardsmen, and service members and their families with the Botswana Defense Force during a cultural celebration at Thebephatshwa Air Base in Botswana on July 13, 2019. More than 170 Army and Air Guardsmen from North Carolina, Alabama, and New Jersey traveled to Botswana to participate in Upward Minuteman 2019, a U.S. Africa Command exercise promoting the U.S. National Guard’s State Partnership Programs on the African Continent. (U.S. Army Photo by Staff Sgt. Mary Junell)