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Seventeen Northern Michigan University students who attended during the fall semester, along with NMU alumni, are among the 150 soldiers from the Michigan Army National Guard's 107th Engineer Battalion deployed Jan. 7. The unit is based in Marquette and Ishpeming. Soldiers gathered with their families and invited guests on campus before departing for southwest Asia for up to a year of duty.
Seventeen Northern Michigan University students who attended during the fall semester, along with NMU alumni, are among the 150 soldiers from the Michigan Army National Guard's 107th Engineer Battalion deployed Jan. 7. The unit is based in Marquette and Ishpeming. Soldiers gathered with their families and invited guests on campus before departing for southwest Asia for up to a year of duty.
Approximately 150 Soldiers assigned to the Michigan Army National Guard Headquarters 107th Engineer Battalion,...
Column: Vermont Guard preps for Kosovo mission Modified: 6/30/2021 10:00:05 PM Hohenfels, Germany Greetings from Germany! Only weeks after a grueling year of COVID-19 support to Vermont and a month-long mission to Washington, D.C., for Operation Capitol Response, more than 900 soldiers from the Vermont Army National Guard are now deployed across the globe. Around 400 soldiers from the 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Mountain) left Vermont in May, bound for validation training at Fort Bliss, Texas. Soldiers completed validation at Fort McGregor, in New Mexico, while a small group validated...
The Montpelier Bridge Row of military vehicles in Berlin. Photo by Carla Occaso. For the past year, the Vermont National Guard has been serving on the frontlines — aiding locally in coronavirus relief efforts, federally to support Operation Capitol Response in Washington, D.C., and globally with deployments to various locations in the U.S. Central Command and in Africa and Europe. This makes for their most active year since the 2010 Afghanistan deployments, reported Maj. Scott Detweiller, Acting State Public Affairs Officer for the Vermont Guard. The Bridge’s readership has a ...