A group of Georgia National Guardsmen is preparing to attend a send-off ceremony in Northeast Georgia Thursday morning before heading off to Afghanistan this summer.
The Toccoa-based 876th Engineer Company is expected to be the last Georgia Army National Guard unit to be deployed to and return from Afghanistan as the United States draws down its forces there.
President Barack Obama announced this week that his administration intends to pull all combat troops out of Afghanistan by the end of 2016 after more than a decade of U.S. military presence there.
The Georgia Guardsmen are preparing to attend the ceremony at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Georgia Baptist Conference Center in Toccoa. Consisting of carpenters, electricians, masons and plumbers, the unit will be based in the Kabul area and will train Afghanistan’s security forces on engineering skills. About 150 troops with the unit are deploying.
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