Each day, Justin Bladecki finds himself benefitting from his breadth of experience. I joined the Army National Guard while I was still in high school and deployed to Iraq at the end of 2004, the same year I graduated. Overseas, I served as a combat engineer and heavy equipment operator. One of the interesting things that I learned as an engineer in the National Guard was how much more versatile our unit was than our active duty counterparts. In the military, everyone is trained to do a single job. What makes the National Guard unique is that everyone in the Guard is a citizen as well...