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SC Guard unit returns after 7-month deployment

Posted: 04.27.2012 at 9:04 AM Updated: 04.27.2012 at 6:00 PM

About 400 members of a South Carolina Army National Guard aviation unit are returning home after a seven-month deployment to Iraq and Kuwait. - AP / Zoheb Hassanali

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About 400 members of a South Carolina Army National Guard aviation unit are returning home after a seven-month deployment to Iraq and Kuwait. Members of the 1/151st Attack Reconnaissance Battalion return to Columbia Friday. The unit is headquartered at McEntire Joint National Guard Base in Eastover.

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