I know you both know the 86th Mountain Brigade, that's upward of 1,800 very proud citizen soldiers from the Vermont Army National Guard are going to begin a deployment, either end of this year or early next year, to Afghanistan.
Leahy discusses the deployment of Vermont National Guard soldiers to Afghanistan.
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