Soldiers to Return Home from Afghanistan

Some Connecticut soldiers are coming home today, just in time to spend the holidays with family.

Nine soldiers from the 242nd Engineer Detachment Construction Management Team of Niantic are coming home after a nine-month deployment to Afghanistan.

The unit left Connecticut in February to go to Fort Bliss in Texas for further training, then to Afghanistan, where they provided project management and technical support to deconstruct and consolidate coalition operating bases.

This is the first deployment for the 242nd Detachment, which received its federal recognition as a unit in September 2011.

The Connecticut National Guard now has 23 soldiers and airmen deployed to Southwest Asia and approximately 225 additional Connecticut National Guard Soldiers and Airmen are expected to deploy overseas in the next 15 months to Kosovo and Guantanamo Bay Cuba.  

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