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The snowy mountains of Afghanistan are about as far away as you can get from the American desert, but members of the Arizona National Guard's 1st Battalion, 158th Infantry were up for a wintry challenge when it came to rescuing three U.S. Senators in harm's way.

Blizzard-like conditions on Feb. 23 forced a helicopter ferrying visiting U.S. Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.), Joseph Biden (D-Del.) and Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) to make an emergency landing in an unsecured part of the country.

Arizona ARNG Soldiers at Bagram Airfield headed up a convoy and went out into the hazardous conditions to secure the landing site and rescue the senators.

"The weather was our biggest adversary," said 1st Lt. Dennis Chamberlain who led the D Company platoon and other service members of Combined Joint Task Force-82."We moved out slow and methodically," Chamberlain said. "If we had crashed or had a problem with our convoy, it would have delayed our response time even more. 'Slow is smooth and smooth is fast,' is a saying in the infantry and this mission was no different than any other."

The members of D Company platoon have been in Afghanistan over a year and seen a fair amount of combat. When they left the base that night, the Soldiers didn't know there were congressional leaders on board the stranded helicopter, and after a safe convoy to the LZ, one squad took the unarmed senators back to the base while the rest of the platoon spent the night in freezing weather protecting the helicopters and crew until more help came the following day.

When these Guard Soldiers return to the States, they'll likely be welcomed home by family and friends as heroes. And once they've caught up with their families and returned to active-drilling status, they may return to their civilian jobs or even consider their educational options. Guard Soldiers on active-drilling status are eligible for Army National Guard (ARNG) Tuition Assistance (US Military Tuition Assistance), which may pay up to 100% of a Guard Soldier's fees and tuition for military distance learning courses. Guard members should see this military education benefit as something they've earned through their dedicated service to their country.

ARNG Soldier's looking at military continuing education should consider the benefits of an online school. Studying online allows National Guardsmen to get career training while juggling their Guard training cycles, family commitments and other responsibilities.

By Robert Fay, Allied Schools, http://www.education4military.com/

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