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Col. Jason Carter, the Illinois Army National Guard's Plans, Operations, and Training Officer (G-3) speaks with Survivor Outreach Services Coordinator and Gold Star mother Jean Harris after the promotion ceremony of Col. Beth Roxworthy. Harris is the step-mother of Illinois Army National Guard Sgt. Joshua Harris, who was killed in action in Afghanistan on Sept. 17, 2008. Also killed was 1st Lt. Mohsin A. Naqvi, Capt. Bruce E. Hays and Staff Sgt. Jason A. Vazquez. Roxworthy, the Commander of the Illinois Army National Guard's Chicago-based 34th Division Sustainment Brigade, spoke about what she learned during each stage of her military career from the value of friendship as a lower enlisted Soldier to the meaning of sacrifice from getting to know the Gold Star family of Sgt. Simone Robinson. Roxworthy was promoted to colonel on Friday, June 21, in Chicago. Roxworthy lives in Rochester, Illinois, and is a native of Crystal Lake, Illinois. Her parents, Donald and Jo Ellen Roxworthy of Crystal Lake, pinned the colonel rank on their daughter's left side. Gold Star mother, Regina Byther, and daughter, Nyzia Wilson, pinned the rank on Roxworthy's right side. Nyzia's mother, Sgt. Simone Robinson of Dixmoor, Illinois, died on March 1, 2009, at Brooke Army Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, from wounds suffered when her security post was attacked with an explosive device on Jan. 17, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Sgt. Robinson served under Roxworthy's company command in the 634th Brigade Support Battalion. After her death, Roxworthy and Sgt. Robinson's family became friends. Roxworthy said she learned the meaning of sacrifice from Sgt. Robinson's family. Maj. Gen. Rodney Boyd, the 41st Adjutant General for Illinois and Commander of the Illinois National Guard, promoted Roxworthy and administered her Oath of Office. The promotion was held in the conference rooms of Jenner & Block Law Firm on the 45th Floor of 353 North Clark Street in Chicago, overlooking Lake Michigan.
| Date Taken: | 06.21.2024 |
| Date Posted: | 06.23.2024 15:14 |
| Photo ID: | 8491949 |
| VIRIN: | 240621-A-OH563-4721 |
| Resolution: | 447x645 |
| Size: | 93.73 KB |
| Location: | CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, US |
| Hometown: | CRYSTAL LAKE, ILLINOIS, US |
| Hometown: | DIXMOOR, ILLINOIS, US |
| Hometown: | ROCHESTER, ILLINOIS, US |
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