Wieland Promoted to Noncommissioned Officer
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Staff Sgt. Brent Haley (center), squad leader, places sergeant rank onto Daniel Wieland, of Sanborn, N.D., during a promotion ceremony April 14 at the Valley City, N.D., Armory. Capt. Nicolette Daschendorf (left), commander of Company B, 231st Brigade Support Battalion, observes as do members of Company B Detachment 1 as they stand in formation.
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VALLEY CITY, N.D. — Daniel Wieland, of Sanborn, N.D., was promoted to the rank of sergeant with the North Dakota Army National Guard this month. He serves as a construction equipment repairer with Detachment 1, Company B of the 231st Brigade Support Battalion in Valley City, N.D.
Wieland joined the North Dakota National Guard in May 2006 and served for a year in Kosovo as part of the NATO peacekeeping force there. He’s also a team leader for the North Dakota National Guard Military Funeral Honors team.
Outside of the National Guard, he works for John Deere Seeding Group in Valley City.
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Since the 2001 terrorist attacks on America, the North Dakota National Guard has mobilized more than 3,800 Soldiers and more than 1,800 Airmen in support of the Global War on Terrorism. Currently, nearly 300 North Dakota Guardsmen are serving overseas while more than 4,000 remain in the state for emergency response and national defense. For every 10,000 citizens in North Dakota, 65 serve in the North Dakota National Guard, a rate that’s more than four times the national average.
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