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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE      April 15, 2008

No. 08-037

EMBEDDED TRAINING TEAM #3 RETURNING FROM AFGHANISTAN APRIL 21

Twelve Kansas National Guardsmen will be honored at a welcome home ceremony on Monday, April 21 as they return from Operation Enduring Freedom.

The ceremony will begin at noon at the Kansas National Guard Armory in Manhattan, Kan., 721 Levee Drive. The armory doors will open at 11 a.m.

Sixteen soldiers deployed in April 2007 for a one year mission in Afghanistan as an Embedded Training Team under the 218th Brigade, training Afghan National Army Forces. Twelve of the soldiers are returning at this time and four have been extended.

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