Reflections as a South Carolina National Guard facility feels empty this Thanksgiving

[The Patriot]

Rows of South Carolina Army National Guard CH-47 Chinook helicopters usually fill the busy flight line located in the Upstate, providing a welcoming scene for visitors who peer through the big bay hangar window of the Donaldson Center in Greenville, South Carolina. With the onset of the holiday season, Staff Sgt. Roby Di Giovine, a combat camera photojournalist assigned to the 59th Aviation Troop Command, South Carolina Army National Guard, reflected on the feeling of both pride and loneliness at the facility, as he recognizes the Soldiers and his comrades assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 151st Aviation Regiment, who are now deployed to Afghanistan.

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