DRAPER, Utah — Approximately 120 members of the Utah National Guard’s 118th Engineer (Sapper) Company returned from their 12-month deployment to Afghanistan Sunday, July 10, at 10:00 at the Utah Air National Guard Base in Salt Lake City. The mission of the unit was to provide route-clearance support to Coalition forces in Afghanistan. One member of the unit, Sgt. 1st Class James E. Thode, of Kirtland, , died Dec. 2, 2010, in Sabari District, Khowst Province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using an improvised explosive device. Soldiers arrived from


DRAPER, Utah — Approximately 120 members of the Utah National Guard’s 118th Engineer (Sapper) Company returned from their 12-month deployment to Afghanistan Sunday, July 10, at 10:00 at the Utah Air National Guard Base in Salt Lake City. The mission of the unit was to provide route-clearance support to Coalition forces in Afghanistan. One member of the unit, Sgt. 1st Class James E. Thode, of Kirtland, , died Dec. 2, 2010, in Sabari District, Khowst Province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using an improvised explosive device. Soldiers arrived from overseas July 5 at Camp Shelby, Miss., and have been undergoing demobilization processing.


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