FOB Tacoma
Complete coverage of military and veterans issues in the South Puget Sound.

Scott Fontaine covers Fort Lewis, McChord Air Force Base, the Washington National Guard and the veteran community. Fontaine has worked at The News Tribune since 2006. E-mail along story suggestions and tips to scott.fontaine@thenewstribune.com

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FOB Tacoma
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Posted by Mike Gilbert @ 03:12:46 pm

About 80 soldiers from the Washington National Guard's 1st Squadron, 140th Aviation Regiment will be welcomed home 10 a.m. Saturday at Fort Lewis after a year-long deployment in Iraq, the Guard said. The ceremony will be held in Soldiers Field House.

The squadron's UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter pilots, crew members and maintainers performed "air assault operations, tactical air movements and support missions" across Iraq, the Guard said in a press release.

The unit is part of the Washington Guard's 66th Theater Aviation Command based at Fort Lewis.