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DENVER—More than 400 members of the Colorado Army National Guard are leaving Saturday for a yearlong tour in Iraq—the largest deployment of state Guard troops since World War II.
Soldiers and about 1,500 family members held a going-away ceremony at Denver’s Pepsi Center on Friday.
The 3rd Battalion, 157th Field Artillery unit based in Colorado Springs will do mainly infantry work. In World War II, the unit helped liberate the Nazi death camp at Dachau.
Gov. Bill Ritter bade the troops farewell at the Pepsi Center ceremony.
