Guardian East August Issue | Page 2

Sections 4 8 14 17 22 25 36 38 40 Lightning Recon Team: month in review Partner Spotlight: Portugal SHARP: Personal Courage Legal: service members civil relief act Chaplain: Batman Theology Safety: 101 most critical days of summer Reenlistments & Promotions submitted photos brain busters MNBG-E CMDR col. david j woods MNBG-E CSM Command sgt. maj. Sheryl Lyon Executive Editor Maj. Wencke Tate Editor Capt. Randy Ready Guardian East welcomes commentaries, articles and photos from readers. Submissions should be sent to the editor at [email protected] by the 21st of each month and include details such as the who, what, when, where and why of the photos. Please include the person’s name, rank and contingent of who took the photos for the photo credit. MNBG-E reserves the right to edit any submissions. COVER PHOTO: Multinational Battle GroupEast soldiers work as a team during sling load operations. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Samantha Parks, 4th Public Affairs Detachment) BACK COVER PHOTO:An Italian soldier conducts ?re phobia training at Camp Slim Lines. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Samantha Parks, 4th Public Affairs Detachment) Layout Editor sgt. Samantha Parks Contributing Journalists staff sgt. cody harding Sgt. Joshua Stoffregen Guardian East is produced for personnel of Multinational Battle Group-East and is an authorized publication for members of the Department of Defense. Contents of Guardian East are not necessarily the official views of the U.S. government, the Department of the Army, 525th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade or MNBG-E. PG 2