[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 214 (Monday, December 13, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1357]
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                     HONORING MRS. LINDA B. CONLIN

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                             HON. TIM RYAN

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                       Monday, December 13, 2021

  Mr. RYAN. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor Mrs. Linda B. Conlin 
on the occasion of her retirement.
  Linda has served the people of the United States of America in her 
role as a Department of the Army Civilian for over 39 years. Her long 
and distinguished career of service began in 1973 as a Kindergarten 
teacher in a small DoD school in the East-West German border kaserne of 
Bad Hersfeld, Germany. She finishes her career with over 25 years in 
the Washington, D.C. area-serving in the Army's Office of the Chief of 
Legislative Liaison, and most recently for the last 17 years as the 
Support Division Chief in the National Guard Bureau's Office of 
Legislative Liaison. Linda has received a Commander's Award for 
Civilian Service and several Superior Civilian Service Awards.
  As the Co-Chair of the National Guard and Reserve Caucus, I 
especially want to thank her for her service with the National Guard 
Bureau's Office of Legislative Liaison.
  2021 will undoubtedly go down in history as, ``The Year of the 
National Guard.'' This year. the National Guard continued its mission 
to fight the scourge that is the COVID-19 pandemic, conducted a 
mobilization of 25,000 troops to defend our Capitol--the bastion of our 
Democracy, responded to countless natural disasters ranging from fires, 
to floods, to hurricanes, all while continuing to protect us from our 
adversaries abroad.
  Throughout this tumultuous year, the National Guard Bureau's Office 
of Legislative Liaison supported my office, and all of Congress, in 
unprecedented ways. Linda was critical in providing this support and 
embodied the spirit of the Guard's motto: ``Always Ready, Always 
There.''
  This country is losing a true patriot today, her loss will be 
noticed. As she begins her new adventures, I wish Linda and her family 
with nothing but health and happiness in her retirement.

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