West Tenn. guardsman promoted to brigadier general
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HUNTINGDON, Tenn. — A West Tennessean has been promoted to a high office in Tennessee’s National Guard. This week, Col. Tommy Baker of Huntingdon was promoted to brigadier general. Baker is now assigned as the assistant adjutant general for the Army National Guard responsible for training and supervising more than 13,000 soldiers. He was deployed to Kuwait in 2004 with Operation Iraqi Freedom, serving again in 2008 as the commander of the 30th Combat Sustainment Support Unit.
