We are the Native American Women Warriors color guard. We are the first all female Native American color guard. We proudly and gratefully represent the Crow, Navajo, Northern Cheyenne and Northern Arapaho Nations. We are all U.S. Army veterans.

Chris Dempsey served for 20 years in the Air Force as a Security Forces, Manpower and Personnel Specialist. He entered the service in May 1992 and retired in June 2012. He was stationed in South Dakota, Montana, and North Carolina. He was deployed numerous times to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, UAE, Bosnia and finishing his career with a year in Afghanistan.

Chief Warrant Officer Lupton is still serving 26 years after he entered the WY ARNG in Sheridan in 1987 at age 17. He entered active duty with the US Army in 1990 and served in DESERT STORM, peacekeeping duty in Bosnia, and ENDURING FREEDOM. He has most recently served overseas in US Embassies on four continents in Uzbekistan, Australia, Ghana, and Greece.

Randy has served his country with honor. He fought first as a Marine in Vietnam and later went on to join the Army and then the National Guard where he retired after fighting in Iraq.

He now lives in Ranchester with his wife, Florence. They have three children and he is a wonderful grandfather to seven grandchildren.

Alton Miller is a disabled veteran of the war in Iraq. He performs with a hearing impairment, losing most of his hearing in explosions while serving in OIF 1, 2 and part of 3.

AT3 Ryan Franklin -Served 1990-1994 US Navy during Desert Storm and Desert Shield. Made two Cruses onboard USS Ranger(CV-61) with VF-2 Bounty Hunters as an F-14 Avionics Tech, and Workups onboard USS Kittyhawk(CV-63). Stationed at NAS Miramar and NAS North Island.

Promotion to Senior Airman - March 2012.
Deploys to Afghanistan in June.