COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Fort Carson has welcomed home 270 soldiers who spent the last nine months serving in the Middle East.
The Gazette reports ( ) the soldiers—members of the base’s 52nd Engineer Battalion—reunited with their loved ones during a ceremony Friday.
Soldiers of the battalion’s 497th Engineer Company split their time between Kuwait and Afghanistan, completing more than 40 projects, like the construction of containment berms at a fuel facility and waste-water retention ponds.
The battalion’s 544th Engineer Company spent most of its time in Kuwait working on large-scale engineering projects.
Meanwhile, platoon-sized detachments from the battalion worked in Afghanistan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates on infrastructure projects and to improve bases.
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Information from: The Gazette,
