Citizen-Soldier supports National Guard in his civilian capacity
New Mexico Army National Guard Pfc. David Mathews, assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 717th Brigade Support Battalion, poses next to a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter at the airport in Carlsbad, N.M., used by the air medical evacuation crews of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 171st Aviation Regiment, Dec. 31, 2015. Mathews, a refueler for Chandler Aviation in Carlsbad, was one of the few people able to help medevac crews coming to help those affected by recent blizzards in New Mexico. New Mexico Army National Guard photo by 1st. Lt. James Raschel