57th Presidential Inauguration

Air National Guard Senior Airman Daniel McMahon and Tech. Sgt. Melissa Hendricks, both with the 116th Force Support Squadron (FSS) out of Robins Air Force Base, Ga., unload water while setting up a mobile field kitchen at the Kennedy Recreation Center while deployed to the National Capital Region in support of the 57th Presidential Inauguration, Washington, D.C., Jan. 18, 2013. The Guardsmen were part of a nine person team joining more than 6,000 Guardsmen from 26 states and territories as part of the Joint Task Force-District of Columbia. Living and working in field conditions, the primary mission of the 116th FSS was to provide meals from their mobile field kitchen to troops supporting the events surrounding the inauguration. A secondary mission included being sworn in as Special Police to assist the District of Columbia Police Department as needed. (National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Roger Parsons/Released)

116th FSS supports National Capital Region in support of the 57th Presidential Inauguration

Published Jan. 23, 2013
By Master Sgt. Roger Parsons
Public Affairs,116 ACW (JSTARS)

WASHINGTON -- Air National Guard Senior Airman Daniel McMahon and Tech. Sgt. Melissa Hendricks, both with the 116th Force Support Squadron (FSS) out of Robins Air Force Base, Ga., unload water while setting up a mobile field kitchen at the Kennedy Recreation Center while deployed to the National Capital Region in support of the 57th Presidential Inauguration, Washington, D.C., Jan. 18, 2013.

The Guardsmen were part of a nine person team joining more than 6,000 Guardsmen from 26 states and territories as part of the Joint Task Force-District of Columbia. Living and working in field conditions, the primary mission of the 116th FSS was to provide meals from their mobile field kitchen to troops supporting the events surrounding the inauguration. A secondary mission included being sworn in as Special Police to assist the District of Columbia Police Department as needed.