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Column: Vermont Guard preps for Kosovo mission
Modified: 6/30/2021 10:00:05 PM
Hohenfels, Germany
Greetings from Germany! Only weeks after a grueling year of COVID-19 support to Vermont and a month-long mission to Washington, D.C., for Operation Capitol Response, more than 900 soldiers from the Vermont Army National Guard are now deployed across the globe.
Around 400 soldiers from the 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Mountain) left Vermont in May, bound for validation training at Fort Bliss, Texas. Soldiers completed validation at Fort McGregor, in New Mexico, while a small group validated and processed through the Conus Replacement Center at Fort Bliss.
Temperatures frequently soared into the 100s in west Texas and New Mexico, with zero humidity and frequent sandstorms. The red sand of Fort McGregor and the surrounding jagged, brown mountain ranges are beautiful, but not at all reminiscent of Vermont. That changed quickly upon our arrival in Germany, where soldiers would und
The Montpelier Bridge
Row of military vehicles in Berlin. Photo by Carla Occaso.
For the past year, the Vermont National Guard has been serving on the frontlines aiding locally in coronavirus relief efforts, federally to support Operation Capitol Response in Washington, D.C., and globally with deployments to various locations in the U.S. Central Command and in Africa and Europe. This makes for their most active year since the 2010 Afghanistan deployments, reported Maj. Scott Detweiller, Acting State Public Affairs Officer for the Vermont Guard.
The Bridge’s readership has a Guard base in Berlin.
Coronavirus relief efforts started in March 2020, when Task Force Coyote a unit serving Vermonters throughout the pandemic established three different sites around the state in case of emergency overflow, set up an alternate health care facility in Essex in only a week to divert less acute needs from overwhelmed hospitals, and assembled and shipped over 160,000 test k