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Illinois Air National Guard’s New Top Enlisted Leader: ‘Get All the Training You Can’

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New State Command Chief Master Sgt. Christopher Mertz’s priorities as he settles into his new job as the Illinois Air National Guard’s senior enlisted Airman might be summarized into one six-letter word: PEOPLE. “You have to have quality, trained, people,” said Mertz, who lives in Troy, Ill. and works as a civilian in finance for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. “That plays directly into readiness for our state mission and our federa…
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DVIDS broke the news in on Saturday, January 17, 2026.
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