Task Force Guns trooper works hard to achieve the American dream

Spc. Ridong Ouyang, a unit supply specialist assigned to Headquarters Company, Task Force Guns, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, from Nashville, Tenn., poses in front of an AH-64D Apache attack helicopter hours before receiving his battlefield promotion Aug. 1. Ouyang left his native land of China five years ago and was recently sworn in as an American citizen here in Afghanistan.