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Philadelphia-Based Pennsylvania Army National Guard Unit to Return From Iraq

Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:53am EDT
 
Friends and family members will be on hand at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, March 18, at
2700 Southampton Road, Philadelphia, to greet soldiers from the Pennsylvania
National Guard's 128th Chemical Company as they return from a six-month tour
of duty in Iraq.

The 80-member company provided security in Balad, Iraq, about 50 miles north
of Baghdad.  Since Sept. 11, approximately 17,000 Pennsylvania National Guard
members have deployed in support of the Global War on Terror. Thirty have been
killed-in-action.

EVENT: PA National Guard soldiers returning from Iraq

DATE: Tuesday, March 18

TIME:10 a.m.

LOCATION: 2700 Southampton Road
Philadelphia

CONTACT: Capt. Larry Birchett of the Pennsylvania Department of Military and
Veterans Affairs, +1-215-560-6001

/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- March 18/



SOURCE  Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs


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