Courtesy Photo

This photo by Staff Sgt. Andrew Schumann shows airmen from the Michigan Air National Guard passing the official viewing party during the Latvian Independence Day Parade in Riga, Latvia, on Nov. 18. Senior Master Sgt. Jeremy Wohlford, fire chief at the CRTC, and Staff Sgt. Eric Kruse, emergency management specialist at the CRTC, joined Senior Master Sgt. Joshua Rance, Security Forces superintendent in Battle Creek, and Master Sgt. Wesley Cooper, fire protection specialist at Selfridge, to pay tribute in the parade to the Michigan National Guard’s 26-year defense cooperation with Latvia.