Ceremony held for deploying soldiers
Published 7:45 am Monday, April 11, 2011
BLOOMINGTON — A special send-off ceremony was held in Bloomington for a group of Minnesota and North Dakota soldiers going to Afghanistan.
A dozen soldiers from Company B, Brigade Special Troops Battalion, First Brigade Combat Team, 34-th Infantry Division will head to Mississippi to train before they head overseas for a year.
The unit has soldiers from 11 communities in Minnesota and one in North Dakota.
The ceremony was held Sunday.