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TACOMA, Wash. -- Members of the Washington National Guard’s 81st Brigade Combat Team, including many based in the Yakima Valley, are already making plans to return home this summer.
The team mobilized last August for a yearlong deployment in Iraq.
An officer, Maj. Harry York of Auburn, Wash., told The Tacoma News Tribune the brigade will come together in Kuwait. Then soldiers will have a 10-day transition at Fort McCoy, Wis., before returning to Fairchild or McChord Air Force bases.
About 2,400 of the brigade’s 3,500 soldiers are from Washington. Most of the others are from California.
Its 181st Brigade Support Battalion and four of the 181st detachments are based out of the Yakima Training Center; a headquarters company detachment is based at the Toppenish armory.
-- Compiled from staff and wire reports
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