Friends and family gather at a deployment reception for the 495th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion at the Red Lion Hotel in Kalispell on Saturday. The unit will leave Montana Sunday for a mobilization station at Fort Hood, Texas. They are deploying in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel in Afghanistan. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
May 19, 2018
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May 19, 2018 7:07 p.m.
GALLERY: Ceremony honors Montana Army National Guard members deploying overseas
Approximately 60 soldiers with the Montana Army National Guard, headquarted in Kalispell, were sent off Saturday with a celebration at the Red Lion Hotel in Kalispell. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., and Montana Gov. Steve Bullock were in attendance.