12/1/12 - Following a 12-month tour of duty in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, more than 150 Michigan Army National Guard Soldiers from the Howell-based 1462nd Transportation Company will be returning home. The soldiers are scheduled to arrive at Highlander Way Middle School in Howell this Sunday for a homecoming ceremony. They received mission specific training before deployment to Kuwait and Afghanistan last December and post-mobilization debriefings at Fort Bliss, Texas. The large unit was led by Captain Megan Hall and 1st Sergeant David Spreeman. The homecoming ceremony is planned at 3:30pm at Highlander Way Middle School on North Highlander Way in Howell. However, there has been a change in the route. The unitâs charter buses will be escorted from D-19 to Grand River and then to Highlander Way Middle School. The public is invited to wave American flags and line up around 2:30pm along Michigan Avenue and Grand River by Howell High School to help welcome them home. The 1462nd Transportation Company was originally called to active duty in December of 2003 and later arrived in Iraq. The unit then returned in 2005 following a 10-month deployment tour, before being deployed again last year. (JM)
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