title: Meritorious Team Commendation
Capital Airport Air National Guard Station
Coast Guard Unit Commendation
30th Airlift Squadron
August Bogusch
296th Infantry Regiment
Coast Guard Honor Guard Badge
213th Air Defense Artillery Regiment
Schutzstaffel
Presidential Guard Battalion (Brazil)
sentences: The Meritorious Team Commendation (MTC) is a unit award of the United States Coast Guard.
 Created on 22 December 1993, the Meritorious Team Commendation is awarded for performance of exceptional actions that would normally warrant a Commandant's Letter of Commendation if recognizing an individual.
 Recognized groups must also display cohesion and teamwork noticeable to upper echelon commanders.
 The MTC is awarded to groups or teams that are not identifiable by OPFAC as a United States Coast Guard unit.
 The MTC may be awarded to military personnel, Coast Guard Auxiliarists, and civilians.
Capital Airport Air National Guard Station is a 91 acre facility on land leased from the Springfield Airport Authority (SAA), located on the grounds of Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport.
 It is home to the 183d Fighter Wing (183 FW), an Illinois Air National Guard unit operationally gained by the Air Combat Command (ACC) and State Headquarters, Illinois Air National Guard.
 Historically a fighter unit, the 183 FW consists of 321 full-time and 800 part-time military personnel (total strength 1,321).
The Coast Guard Unit Commendation is the highest peacetime unit award that may be awarded to military commands of the United States Coast Guard.
 The decoration was first created in 1963 and is presented to members of any Coast Guard unit that distinguishes itself by valorous or extremely meritorious service, not involving combat, but in support of Coast Guard operations.
The 30th Airlift Squadron an inactive United States Air Force unit.
 Its last assignment was to the 19th Operations Group.
 It was the first active-duty associate unit of an Air National Guard wing, working with the 187th Airlift Squadron at Cheyenne Air National Guard Base, Wyoming.
 It operated the Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft of its colocated Guard unit, conducting airlift missions.
August Raimond Bogusch (5 August 1890 – 28 January 1948) was an SS-"Scharführer" and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp.
 He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz Trial.
The 296th Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Puerto Rico Army National Guard consisting mostly of Puerto Rican enlisted soldiers and officers.
 Today, only its 1st Battalion remains active; being allotted to the 92nd Maneuver Enhancement Brigade of the Puerto Rico Army National Guard.
 The 296th is composed by the first battalion of infantrymen that engaged in combat as a Puerto Rico National Guard unit, as the 65th Infantry Regiment was, at the time, a regular Army unit.
The Coast Guard Honor Guard Badge is a qualification badge of the United States Coast Guard which recognizes those personnel who are/have been permanently assigned to the Ceremonial Honor Guard Unit of a U.S. Coast Guard command located at TISCOM, Alexandria, Virginia.
 The badge was inspired by the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Guard Identification Badge.
The 213th Air Defense Artillery is a regiment in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard.
 It appears to have been established as an Air Defense Artillery Branch unit in 1989-90, according to TIOH insignia data.
 The Reading Eagle of August 31, 1989, advertises for personnel to join Battery B of the 1st Battalion, a 'new Army National Guard unit'.
The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylized as with Armanen runes; ] ; literally "Protection Squadron") was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.
 It began with a small guard unit known as the "Saal-Schutz" (Hall-Protection) made up of NSDAP volunteers to provide security for party meetings in Munich.
 In 1925, Heinrich Himmler joined the unit, which had by then been reformed and given its final name.
 Under his direction (1929–45), it grew from a small paramilitary formation to one of the most powerful organizations in Nazi Germany.
 From 1929 until the regime's collapse in 1945, the SS was the foremost agency of security, surveillance, and terror within Germany and German-occupied Europe.
The Presidential Guard Battalion (Portuguese: "Batalhão da Guarda Presidencial" ; BGP) is a unit of the Brazilian Army and honor guard to the President of Brazil.
 Two other units, the 1st Guards Cavalry Regiment (Portuguese: "1º Regimento de Cavalaria de Guardas" ; RCG; also known as the "Independence Dragoons") and the Cayenne Battery, are also part of the presidential honor guard unit.

Question: Question: August Bogusch was a part of the group that began as what small guard unit? 

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 The Meritorious Team Commendation (MTC) is a unit award of the United States Coast Guard.
 Created on 22 December 1993, the Meritorious Team Commendation is awarded for performance of exceptional actions that would normally warrant a Commandant's Letter of Commendation if recognizing an individual.
 Recognized groups must also display cohesion and teamwork noticeable to upper echelon commanders.
 The MTC is awarded to groups or teams that are not identifiable by OPFAC as a United States Coast Guard unit.
 The MTC may be awarded to military personnel, Coast Guard Auxiliarists, and civilians. 

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 Capital Airport Air National Guard Station is a 91 acre facility on land leased from the Springfield Airport Authority (SAA), located on the grounds of Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport.
 It is home to the 183d Fighter Wing (183 FW), an Illinois Air National Guard unit operationally gained by the Air Combat Command (ACC) and State Headquarters, Illinois Air National Guard.
 Historically a fighter unit, the 183 FW consists of 321 full-time and 800 part-time military personnel (total strength 1,321). 

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 August Raimond Bogusch (5 August 1890 – 28 January 1948) was an SS-"Scharführer" and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp.
 He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz Trial. 

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 The 296th Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Puerto Rico Army National Guard consisting mostly of Puerto Rican enlisted soldiers and officers.
 Today, only its 1st Battalion remains active; being allotted to the 92nd Maneuver Enhancement Brigade of the Puerto Rico Army National Guard.
 The 296th is composed by the first battalion of infantrymen that engaged in combat as a Puerto Rico National Guard unit, as the 65th Infantry Regiment was, at the time, a regular Army unit. 

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 The Coast Guard Honor Guard Badge is a qualification badge of the United States Coast Guard which recognizes those personnel who are/have been permanently assigned to the Ceremonial Honor Guard Unit of a U.S. Coast Guard command located at TISCOM, Alexandria, Virginia.
 The badge was inspired by the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Guard Identification Badge. 

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 The 213th Air Defense Artillery is a regiment in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard.
 It appears to have been established as an Air Defense Artillery Branch unit in 1989-90, according to TIOH insignia data.
 The Reading Eagle of August 31, 1989, advertises for personnel to join Battery B of the 1st Battalion, a 'new Army National Guard unit'. 

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 The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylized as with Armanen runes; ] ; literally "Protection Squadron") was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.
 It began with a small guard unit known as the "Saal-Schutz" (Hall-Protection) made up of NSDAP volunteers to provide security for party meetings in Munich.
 In 1925, Heinrich Himmler joined the unit, which had by then been reformed and given its final name.
 Under his direction (1929–45), it grew from a small paramilitary formation to one of the most powerful organizations in Nazi Germany.
 From 1929 until the regime's collapse in 1945, the SS was the foremost agency of security, surveillance, and terror within Germany and German-occupied Europe. 

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 The Presidential Guard Battalion (Portuguese: "Batalhão da Guarda Presidencial" ; BGP) is a unit of the Brazilian Army and honor guard to the President of Brazil.
 Two other units, the 1st Guards Cavalry Regiment (Portuguese: "1º Regimento de Cavalaria de Guardas" ; RCG; also known as the "Independence Dragoons") and the Cayenne Battery, are also part of the presidential honor guard unit. 

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Answer: Saal-Schutz