Retired North Carolina Army National Guard (NCARNG)

Retired North Carolina Army National Guard (NCARNG) Command Chief Warrant Officer 5 Richard D. Comer and his wife, Kim D. Comer, pose with Richard Comer’s Order of the Long Leaf Pine awarded by N.C. State Senator Brent Jackson on the North Carolina Senate Floor at the North Carolina General Assembly in Raleigh N.C., Nov. 13, 2019. The award honors Richard Comer’s and retired NCARNG Brig. Gen. William Ronny Coats’ thirty years of duty to state and nation as NCARNG aviation leaders, “it’s a great honor for us to receive this award for service to the citizens of North Carolina,” said Comer. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Robert Jordan, North Carolina National Guard Public Affairs/Released)