The Vermont Army National Guard and Senegalese Armed Force engineering team pose for a group photo after lunch during a range renovation project, Mount Rolland Training Site, Senegal, April 18, 2018. The range is being renovated by Vermont National Guard and Senegalese Armed Forces engineers because they are state partners in the National Guard Bureau’s State Partnership Program and marks the 10 year anniversary of their teamwork. (U.S. Army National Guard Photograph by Officer Candidate Nathan Rivard)

Staff Sgt. Mudgette (left) Detachment 1, Garrison Support Command, and Sgt. Jack Curtis, horizontal construction engineer, Detachment 1, Garrison Support Command, Vermont National Guard, shovel dirt preparing a target-lifter for a firing range renovation, Mount Rolland Training Site, Senegal, April 17, 2018. The range renovations were conducted by the Vermont National Guard and Senegalese Armed Forces engineers because they are state partners in the National Guard Bureau’s State Partnership Program and marks the 10-year anniversary of their teamwork. (U.S. Army National Guard Photograph by Officer Candidate Nathan Rivard)

First Class Darby Alberts (back), surveying and design engineer, Recruiting and Retention Battalion, and Sgt. Jack Curtis, horizontal construction engineer, Detachment 1, Garrison Support Command, Vermont National Guard, shovel dirt preparing a target-lifter for a firing range renovation, Mount Rolland Training Site, Senegal, April 17, 2018. The range is being renovated by the Vermont National Guard and Senegalese Armed Forces engineers because they are state partners in the National Guard Bureau’s State Partnership Program. This year marks the 10 year anniversary of their teamwork. (U.S. Army National Guard Photograph by Officer Candidate Nathan Rivard).

The Vermont Army National Guard and Senegalese Armed Force engineering team pose for a group photo after lunch during a range renovation project, Mount Rolland Training Site, Senegal, April 18, 2018. The range is being renovated by Vermont National Guard and Senegalese Armed Forces engineers because they are state partners in the National Guard Bureau’s State Partnership Program and marks the 10 year anniversary of their teamwork. (U.S. Army National Guard Photograph by Officer Candidate Nathan Rivard)

Staff Sgt. Mudgette (left) Detachment 1, Garrison Support Command, and Sgt. Jack Curtis, horizontal construction engineer, Detachment 1, Garrison Support Command, Vermont National Guard, shovel dirt preparing a target-lifter for a firing range renovation, Mount Rolland Training Site, Senegal, April 17, 2018. The range renovations were conducted by the Vermont National Guard and Senegalese Armed Forces engineers because they are state partners in the National Guard Bureau’s State Partnership Program and marks the 10-year anniversary of their teamwork. (U.S. Army National Guard Photograph by Officer Candidate Nathan Rivard)

First Class Darby Alberts (back), surveying and design engineer, Recruiting and Retention Battalion, and Sgt. Jack Curtis, horizontal construction engineer, Detachment 1, Garrison Support Command, Vermont National Guard, shovel dirt preparing a target-lifter for a firing range renovation, Mount Rolland Training Site, Senegal, April 17, 2018. The range is being renovated by the Vermont National Guard and Senegalese Armed Forces engineers because they are state partners in the National Guard Bureau’s State Partnership Program. This year marks the 10 year anniversary of their teamwork. (U.S. Army National Guard Photograph by Officer Candidate Nathan Rivard).

U.S. Army Master Sgt. Daniel Landry, left, and Sgt. John Curtis, both with the Vermont National Guard Military Funeral Honors team, fold the U.S. flag during the funeral of Army Cpl. George A. Perreault at Saint Francis Xavier Cemetery, Winooski, Vt., May 13, 2017. Perreault, who was reported missing in action on February 13, 1951 during the Korean War, was recently identified and returned to his family for burial with full military honors. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Sarah Mattison)

U.S. Army Sgt. John Curtis, left, and Master Sgt. Daniel Landry, both with the Vermont National Guard Military Funeral Honors team, fold the U.S. flag during the funeral of Army Cpl. George A. Perreault at Saint Francis Xavier Cemetery, Winooski, Vt., May 13, 2017. Perreault, who was reported missing in action on February 13, 1951 during the Korean War, was recently identified and returned to his family for burial with full military honors. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Sarah Mattison)

Sgt. Jack Curtis, heavy construction engineer, Detachment 1, Garrison Support Command, Vermont Army National Guard, talks about the range renovation project he worked on.Vermont Army National Guard Engineering Soldiers and Senegalese Armed Force Engineers work together to renovate a known distance range, Mount Rolland Training Site, Senegal. The Vermont National Guard and Senegal are state partners under the National Guard Bureau's State Partnership program. This year marks their 10th anniversary as state partners.