Mike Gordon, distribution director with Dollar General and a former Marine, was nominated by Capt. William Tyler Rice, a logistics officer with the 149th Brigade Support Battalion, to take part in the ESGR Bosslift that provided civilian employers to spend a day interacting with Soldiers from the 149th Mechanized Enhancement Brigade during their Annual Training at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., June 15, 2016. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Maj Carla Raisler)