Huron-SDANG 153rd Engineer Battalion/Forward Support Company Returning

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When:
September 30, 2017 @ 8:30 am
2017-09-30T08:30:00-05:00
2017-09-30T08:45:00-05:00
Where:
Huron Arena
150 5th St SW
Huron, SD 57350
USA
Contact:
Randy Ward, A.S.C.
605-359-8719
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153rd Welcome Home Ceremonies
Huron & Parkston, SD
November 11, 2016

   A welcome home ceremony on Saturday, Sept. 30, at 11:30 a.m for about 165 Soldiers of the South Dakota Army National Guard’s 153rd Engineer Battalion and its Forward Support Company is scheduled at the Huron Arena.  If possible, we would like to have some members available to help put up flags at the Huron Arena prior to the ceremony.  We will stage at 8:30 at the Arena so that we can put up the flags and move to the Huron Airport to welcome them home when they arrive.  We have no exact arrival time and will put out more details as soon as we have them.

Ride Captain: Ray Anderson, RC
605-469-5736

Huron, Parkston Soldiers to return home from deployment

   HURON, S.D. – A welcome home ceremony for about 165 Soldiers of the South
Dakota Army National Guard’s 153rd Engineer Battalion and its Forward
Support Company is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 30, at 11:30 a.m. (CDT) at
the Huron Arena.
   The public is encouraged to attend the event as the Huron and Parkston-based
units return from a 10-month deployment to the Middle East.
   Planned speakers for the ceremony include Gov. Dennis Daugaard and Maj. Gen.
Tim Reisch, SDNG adjutant general.
   A community recognition event will also be held for the FSC, Sept. 30, at 4
p.m. (CDT) at the Parkston High School auditorium.
   The mission of the 153rd while deployed was to provide command and control
of assigned or attached engineer units, while the FSC provided logistics and
maintenance support.
   The Soldiers returned stateside to Fort Bliss, Texas, Sept. 17, where they
have been completing demobilization requirements before returning back to
South Dakota.
   This deployment marks the second mobilization for the 153rd which deployed
to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004-2005. This was the
first deployment for the FSC.