Pritchett takes command of Alabama National Guard

In a ceremony at the Alabama National Guard Joint Force Headquarters in Montgomery on Friday, Brigadier General David K. Pritchett officially assumed command of the Alabama National Guard. Pritchett was promoted after the retirement of former Adjutant General Major General Sheryl E. Gordon, the first woman to ever hold the position. Gordon, in her farewell remarks, called it a privilege to have led Alabama’s National Guard. “They believe in the hard and necessary work we are called to do, and they believe in the honorable men and women who do it,” she said. “There’s no place I would have rathe