Service & Sacrifice: Guard in Iraq

This 2024 documentary collaboration between WBIR-TV and KGW-TV revisits citizen soldiers we first met two decades ago in training and subsequently embedded with during their deployment to the war in Iraq.  

2004 marked a signature moment in the history of the National Guard ushering onto the field of battle the largest call-up of citizen soldiers since World War II. Twenty years ago, troops from guard units based in Tennessee and Oregon proved symbolic of the burden assumed by those volunteers to fight insurgents and help rebuild a fractured country.