Photos by Ileen Kennedy, Z-KC166 Soldiers of the Utah Guard’s 624th Engineers Return from Afghanistan The approximately 140 soldiers of the Utah National Guard’s 624th Engineer Company, 1457th Engineer Battalion, return to Utah from their 12-month deployment to Afghanistan Thursday, April 25, via charter aircraft at the Utah Air National Guard Base in Salt Lake City. The 624th is based in Springville, with detachments in Price and Vernal. Its mission in Afghanistan was to perform vertical construction (structures and buildings) in the Central Command area of operations in support of O
Photos by Ileen Kennedy, Z-KC166 Soldiers of the Utah Guard’s 624th Engineers Return from Afghanistan The approximately 140 soldiers of the Utah National Guard’s 624th Engineer Company, 1457th Engineer Battalion, return to Utah from their 12-month deployment to Afghanistan Thursday, April 25, via charter aircraft at the Utah Air National Guard Base in Salt Lake City. The 624th is based in Springville, with detachments in Price and Vernal. Its mission in Afghanistan was to perform vertical construction (structures and buildings) in the Central Command area of operations in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Twenty-seven babies (25 single births and two sets of twins) were born to wives of 624th Soldiers during the unit’s deployment to Afghanistan. These 25 Soldiers (15 of whom are first-time fathers) will be seeing their infant children for the first time on Thursday. Soldiers arrived from overseas at Fort Hood, Texas, earlier this month and have been undergoing demobilization processing.
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