Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, hugs Kathrine Muller, mother of Vermonter Adam Muller who was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, before a deployment ceremony in Essex Junction, Vt., Friday, Jan. 8, 2010. Two hundred more Afghanistan-bound troops from the Vermont National Guard are shipping out. They are members of a special training unit of the 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team based in Rutland. In all, about 1,500 members of the Guard are being deployed to Afghanistan for a year.
(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)