The incident comes after two National Guard Apache crashes in February, and an active-duty helicopter crash overseas late last year that killed five soldiers.
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5PM: Utah National Guard battalion returns home after year deployment to Afghanistan
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SALT LAKE CITY More than a dozen Utah National Guardsmen returned home and reunited with their families after spending a year in Afghanistan.
About 15 soldiers with the 211th Aviation Regiment landed at the Salt Lake International Airport Tuesday afternoon. Are you ready? said Jessica Berry to her two children. He s coming!
The three of them were waiting for her husband, and the father of the two children, to finally come home. He s coming any minute, she said.
For as long as Jessica Berry has been waiting, though, a few more minutes wasn t going to matter.
1 When Caiden Taylor enlisted in the Utah National Guard in 2014 he raised his right hand and swore an oath to defend the Constitution and obey the orders of the President of the United States and of the officers appointed over him.
It’s an oath very similar to what active duty Soldiers affirm, except that it includes a promise to also defend the constitution of the state of Utah and obey the orders of the governor.
In early September Gov. Gary Herbert issued an activation order to the Utah National Guard.
When Taylor, a sergeant in the 118th Transportation Company, learned about the activation, he made good on his oath.