2/16/2023 0 Comments Mount and blade retire![]() 'A career of serving in the military 30 years or more is pretty remarkable and to have two brothers that enlist on the same day and retire on the same day, that's the first that I've heard of it,” said Col. Now, after 31 years of service, the brothers are preparing to retire. On June 5 of that year, the brothers enlisted together in the Iowa National Guard. ![]() 'I was kind of joking but said, ‘Hey Todd, if you do it, I'll do it' and he said, ‘Okay, let's do this.' ” 'It wasn't anything we definitely thought we'd do,” Ryan Aarhus said. CEDAR RAPIDS - In the spring of 1986, Todd and Ryan Aarhus sat together in their parent's home in Cedar Rapids and discussed what an National Guard recruiter had just pitched to them. ![]()
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