
SOKO BANJA, Serbia — Staff Sgt. John C. Berling is greeted by local children who have befriended him and other Ohio National Guard airmen and soldiers as they have been renovating an elementary schoolhere with their Serbian army counterparts through the National Guard Bureau State Partnership Program. (Department of Defense photo by by 1st Lt. Nicole Ashcroft)

SOKO BANJA, Serbia — Army Spc. Terry P. Barber greets Serbian Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovac during his visit to an elementary school here, Aug. 24, 2009, where Ohio airmen and solders have been working together with their Serbian counterparts on school renovations via the National Guard Bureau State Partnership Program. (Department of Defense photo by 1st Lt. Nicole Ashcroft)