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.
