Col. Mike Kershaw, right, Huffman, Texas, native, and commander of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, presents Carlisle, Pa., native Lt. Col. Michael Shenk, left, commander of 3rd Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, with a plaque to show his gratitude for a job well done while their two units worked together in Iraq during a ceremony Aug. 13 at Camp Taji, Iraq. Shenk's unit performed its first real combat air assault as a brand new unit with troopers from 2-10th on the anniversary of the first ever air assault conducted in the Ia Drang Valley of Vietnam in 1965.