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After preparing for their mission for over a year, more than 100 Vermont Army National Guard soldiers loaded a plane in South Burlington Wednesday morning. Their ultimate destination: Africa. Among them: a pair of young men bearing the same last name one being a local police officer.
Essex Police Departmentâs (EPD) Justin Lindor, a specialist in the Army, is one of about 950 soldiers who will be deployed across the U.S. European, U.S. African, and U.S. Central commands during the first half of 2021.
He and the others who took off from Vermont on Wednesday who are primarily from the 572nd Brigade Engineer Battalion and the 1st Squadron, 172nd Cavalry (Mountain), both part of 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Mountain) will first go to Texas for 3-4 weeks of final training before getting sent to multiple locations across the U.S. Africa Command.
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More than 100 Vermont National Guard soldiers will deploy this week.
On Wednesday, March 10, the soldiers, primarily from the 572nd Brigade Engineer Battalion and the 1st Squadron, 172nd Infantry (Mountain) will depart for multiple mission locations.
All of the destinations will be within the U.S. Africa command. In July 2020, the Guard made deployment announcements and said this group would have an expected one year deployment as part of Operation Spartan Shield.
This is one of several deployments planned in 2021. These soldiers have been preparing for over a year as part of about 950 Vermont Army National Guard Soldiers deploying across U.S. European, U.S. African and U.S. Central Commands throughout the first half of 2021, a news release from the Guard reads.
More than 100 Vermont Guard soldiers to deploy Wednesday
March 9, 2021
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SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) More than 100 Vermont National Guard soldiers will be deploying to multiple locations on Wednesday.
The soldiers are mostly from the 572nd Brigade Engineer Battalion and the 1st Squadron, 172nd Cavalry (Mountain), the Guard said.
They will be going to multiple locations across the U.S. Africa command, the Guard said, but did not specify where.
The deployment is anticipated to last about a year, said Maj. Scott Detweiler, the acting state public affairs officer for the Vermont National Guard.
“These soldiers have been preparing for over a year as part of about 950 Vermont Army National Guard Soldiers deploying across U.S. European, U.S. African and U.S. Central Commands throughout the first half of 2021,” the Guard said in a news release.