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March, 2011
Virginia Guard Provincial Reconstruction Team Security Force holds departure ceremony for federal duty in Afghanistan
March 30, 2011
— A specially trained platoon of 42 Virginia Army National Guard Soldiers officially began their tour on federal active duty with a departure ceremony held March 28 in Sandston. The platoon will deploy to Afghanistan to serve as a Provincial Reconstruction Team Security Force...
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529th CSSB returns to United States from Afghanistan duty
March 24, 2011
— Virginia Army National Guard Soldiers from the Virginia Beach-based 529th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion returned to Virginia over the course of several days from March 21-24, 2011, after having served on federal active duty in Afghanistan since May 2010...
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Staunton-based 116th BCT headquarters ordered to mobilize for active duty in Afghanistan
March 24, 2011
— The Virginia National Guard’s Staunton-based 116th Brigade Combat Team Headquarters has received a mobilization order to enter federal active duty in Afghanistan, according to an announcement made March 24, 2011 by Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Long, Jr., the Adjutant General of Virginia. Long said approximately 175 Soldiers will begin serving on federal active duty May 15 and will serve as a command and control headquarters for counter-insurgency operations in Afghanistan...
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Aviation battalion conducts send-off before deployment to Iraq
March 4, 2011
— The “Punishers” of the Sandston-based 2nd Battalion, 224th Aviation Regiment conducted a departure ceremony Feb. 25 at the Army Aviation Support Facility in Sandston to bid farewell to the mobilizing Soldiers and to mark the official start of the unit's federal active duty service in Iraq...
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203rd RED HORSE holds memorial service for Airmen, Soldiers lost in airplane crash 10 years ago
March 4, 2011
— The Virginia Air National Guard's 203rd RED HORSE Squadron conducted a memorial service at the State Military Reservation in Virginia Beach March 3, 2011 to honor 18 unit members and three Florida Army Guard aviators who perished in a military transport crash 10 years ago...
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