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The Vermont National Guard, which will see more soldiers serving overseas missions this year than in any other in more than a decade, held a send-off ceremony Friday for a few hundred members who will soon depart for duty. Task Force Avalanche is on its way to U.S. Central Command in the Middle East. “You’re the tip of the spear...
9 3rd Battalion, 172nd Infantry (Mountain), 86th Brigade Infantry Combat Team (Mountain) held a sendoff ceremony Jan. 29 at the Camp Ethan Allen Training Site Parade Field in Jericho, Vermont. About 350 Soldiers with the Vermont Army National Guard will join about 200 Soldiers from New Hampshire, Connecticut and Colorado and deploy to the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility as part of Task Force Avalanche. “The Soldiers of the Mountain Battalion have worked very hard to prepare for this deployment,” said Maj. Gen. Greg Knight, Vermont National Guard adjutant ge...