CHEYENNE – The Wyoming Army National Guard’s 21 Soldiers, who have been deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom since Oct. 17, 2008, are scheduled to arrive in Wyoming at 9:30 p.m. on Oct. 14, at the ArmyAviation Support Facility, located at 4600 Powderhouse Rd., Cheyenne.

The Soldiers are members of C Company, 5th Battalion, 159th General Support Aviation Brigade, also known as Charlie Med.  They have been performing medical evacuation missions in Afghanistan.
They will be greeted by Wyoming National Guard command staff and families.  A brief welcome home ceremony will follow.

The unit will out-process at Fort Lewis, Wash., prior to the evening arrival in Cheyenne. The Soldiers deployed with other medical evacuation units from California and Nevada. The Soldiers are from the Wyoming communities of Cheyenne, Laramie, Burns; the Colorado communities of Windsor, Gill, Loveland, Grand Junction, Fort Collins, and Highlands Ranch; as well as Omaha, Neb., and Warrenton,
Mo. Charlie Med, as the unit refers to itself, is the most deployed unit in the Wyoming Army National Guard.