Photos: Utah National Guard bids farewell to its adjutant general in change-of-command ceremony

Maj. Gen. Jeff Burton, right, taps Brig. Gen. Michael Turley on the leg after relinquishing command of the Utah National Guard to him at the Roland R. Wright Air National Guard Base in Salt Lake City on Thursday. Burton began his military service in 1982 as an enlisted soldier in the field artillery. He attended Brigham Young University’s Reserve Officer Training Corps as a Distinguished Military Graduate and was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1984. Burton served for six years as a regular Army officer in the Military Police Corps, completing tours at the U.S. Army Military Police School, Fort McClellan, Alabama; in Europe with the 7th United States Corps; and at Fort Carson, Colorado, with the 4th Infantry Division. He returned to the Utah Army National Guard in 1991 and branch-transferred to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He has served in many positions including company commander, battalion executive officer and assistant professor of military science at both Brigham Young University and Utah Valley University. He is a two-time battalion commander, leading the Recruiting and Retention Battalion and then as commander of the 1457th Engineer Combat Battalion, where he deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom I as part of the 1st Armored Division Task Force in 2003. In 2007, he was appointed assistant adjutant general. He assumed his duties as the adjutant general in October 2012. 

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