Nearly 300 Wisconsin National Guard members are returning home after helping at the state’s nursing facilities during the last three months.
Residents say they will be sad to see the guard members leave and the soldiers, though happy to be going home, say it was an enjoyable deployment.
The nursing facilities were in crisis during the pandemic when they couldn’t hire enough workers.
The CEO of the Odd Fellow Rebekah Home Association in Green Bay says March was the first time it had shown a profit in 18 months.
About 40 National Guard members have left and the rest will be leaving throughout this week.
