Music, travel enhance annual training

Six Iowa National Guard members deployed June 30 to southeastern Europe, armed with a tuba, a French horn, trumpets, a trombone and a bandleader’s baton. Members of the 34th Army Band, the “Brass Five,” spent eight days in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, training with the country’s national security force. “We performed at ceremonies and concerts together,” said Chief Warrant Officer 2 Kent Wesselink, commander ...