Young honored with Missouri Army National Guard recruiting award

By Jennifer Archdekin
Ngmo.pao@us.army.mil

ST. JOSEPH - The Missouri Army National Guard's 27th Recruiting and Retention Battalion recently honored Soldiers for their past year's efforts in building the National Guard state-wide.

Among those honored was Sgt. 1st Class Brent Young with Area 1, 27th Recruiting and Retention Battalion in St. Joseph. Young received the Recruiting and Retention Commander-Sergeant Major Award.

The award is presented to recruiting and retention noncommissioned officers who produced 15-17 new enlistments during the year.

"Receiving this award this year meant a lot to me," said Young. "It took many hours of hard and diligent work to achieve the number of enlistments it took to receive this award. With moving on to a NCOIC (noncommissioned officer in charge) position this year, receiving this last recruiting award was a nice wrap up to my six year recruiting experience."

Young lives in Chillicothe and was based at the Richmond recruiting office.

For more information about the Missouri National Guard, please call 1-800-GoGuard or visit www.moguard.com.

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For more information about this release, please contact Jennifer Archdekin at 816-262-2893 or e-mail at jarchdekin@gmail.com.