Photos by: Capt. Ryan Sutherland Utah Army Guard’s 128th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment Return from Afghanistan Deployment DRAPER, Utah — Eight members of the Utah Army National Guard’s 128th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment will return home after a 9-month deployment to Afghanistan Wednesday, Dec. 17. The soldiers arrived from overseas at Fort Dix, New Jersey, earlier this week and have been undergoing demobilization processing. The mission of the 128th was twofold: first, they provided public-affairs support to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mission in Afghanistan


Photos by: Capt. Ryan Sutherland Utah Army Guard’s 128th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment Return from Afghanistan Deployment DRAPER, Utah — Eight members of the Utah Army National Guard’s 128th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment will return home after a 9-month deployment to Afghanistan Wednesday, Dec. 17. The soldiers arrived from overseas at Fort Dix, New Jersey, earlier this week and have been undergoing demobilization processing. The mission of the 128th was twofold: first, they provided public-affairs support to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mission in Afghanistan, and second, they trained their Afghan military counterparts to provide public-affairs support to military operations. Specifically, Soldiers of the 128th performed print and video coverage of soldiers working to accomplish ISAF mission goals, assist civilian media covering soldiers in the field, and offer public-affairs guidance to soldiers and ISAF command.


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