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St. Cloud-based Guard unit returning from Iraq

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A Saint Cloud-based Guard unit is retuning home. "The unit was supporting the drawdown in Iraq with its six helicopters. The unit flew 800 missions, transported 49,500 personnel and more than 7 million pounds of cargo from Iraq to Kuwait," reports the Saint Cloud Times.

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