BAGHDAD - Spc. Verna Oates (left), from Texarkana, Texas, serving with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 56th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 36th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division-Baghdad, receives a framed copy of the Non-Commissioned O...

BAGHDAD - Spc. Verna Oates, from Texarkana, Texas, serving with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 56th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 36th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division-Baghdad, reads a framed copy of the Non-Commissioned Officer's C...

BAGHDAD -Sgt. Verna Oates (right), with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 56th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 36th Infantry Division, Multi-National Division-Baghdad, receives a congratulatory handshake from 1st Sgt. Ron Novio, senior enlisted le...