Topeka ? Maj. Gen. Tod Bunting has seen a lot in seven years as Kansas adjutant general.

Bunting said Monday the Kansas National Guard and emergency management have been asked to respond to several events, from natural disasters in each of the 105 counties to two wars and increased demands for homeland security.

He will leave command in January when Republican Sam Brownback becomes governor. Col. Lee Tafanelli, who is also a state legislator, will take Bunting’s place.

Bunting says 2007 was the most difficult year, when a tornado leveled Greensburg, floods covered southeast Kansas and more than 3,000 soldiers and airmen were deployed to war.

He says attending the burials of 11 soldiers killed in combat was one of the hardest parts of the job.