Soldiers Coming Home To Jonesboro
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
100 soldiers from Company A, 875th
Engineer Battalion of the Arkansas Army National Guard are
scheduled to return home tomorrow. A homecoming ceremony is
scheduled for 10 a.m. at the armory in Jonesboro.
The company was activated March 27th, trained two months for
combat, but then was reassigned to support homeland security -- a
mission that took the soldiers to the Umatilla Chemical Depot in
Hermiston, Oregon.
In all, about 4,200 soldiers and airmen from the
Arkansas National Guard are now on active duty in the United
States, Cuba, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan.
