Updated at 12:33 p.m., Thursday, June 28, 2007
200 Schofield soldiers returning from year in Iraq
Advertiser Staff
Nearly 200 Schofield Barracks soldiers will return home next week after a yearlong deployment in Iraq, Schofield officials announced today.About 194 soldiers from the 45th Sustainment Brigade, including personnel from HHC & B Detachment 45th Special Troops Battalion and C Detachment 556th Personnel Services Battalion, will be treated to homecoming ceremonies Tuesday at Wheeler Army Airfield.
About 500 soldiers from the 45th Sustainment Brigade were among the 7,000 Hawai'i soldiers deployed to Iraq last summer.
The 45th Sustainment Brigade soldiers were responsible for logistics throughout Multi-national Division North, and the returning soldiers were deployed to Qayyarah West airfield, or "Q-West," in Iraq.
