Approximately 190 Wisconsin Army National Guard Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 127th Infantry, better known as the Red Arrow, landed safely on U.S. soil Sunday after a historic deployment to Afghanistan.
Soldiers with the Appleton-headquartered unit returned to Fort Bliss, Texas, where they will de-mobilize before returning to Wisconsin in the coming weeks.
The nearly 400 Soldiers of the battalion mobilized to Afghanistan late last year and embarked on a mission in which they conducted hundreds of missions as “guardian angels,” providing force protection for countless engagements between advisors from the 2nd Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB), other coalition forces, contractors, and Afghan troops.
The balance of the 127th Soldiers remain in Afghanistan.
