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Combat Leader, Relationship Builder, and Master of Movie Lines: Major General Mark Jackson Has Retired After 38 Years
November 14, 2023
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, Nov. 14 -- The Illinois National Guard issued the following news:

Command Sgt. Maj. Phillip Barber, then a squad leader, took a position on a rooftop in the Abu Graib neighborhood of Baghdad in 2005 so he could get a better vantage point on the enemy's attack on his Soldiers.

"Black Hawk Six is in enroute" he heard over his radio. Maj. Gen. Mark Jackson of Frankfort, Illinois, then a lieutenant colonel and his battalion commander, . . .

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