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June 20, 2006

95 Rhode Island Guard members return tomorrow from Iraq

The 95 men of the 861st Engineer Company are scheduled to land at the Northstar Aviation Facility, 544 Airport Rd., Warwick, tomorrow at 1:30 p.m., after 12 months of combat engineer operations in Iraq, the Rhode Island National Guard announced today.

The unit, which is based in East Greenwich, left Rhode Island in January 2005 for training and overseas certification at Camp Shelby, Miss. In Iraq, the compnay has worked in support of anti-insurgency operations throughout Iraq, the National Guard said.

The Rhode Island National Guard now has 175 members deployed in combat operations overseas.

Posted by Mike McDermott  at 4:39 PM | Permalink

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