The happy homecomings for western Wisconsin’s citizen soldiers were a bit smaller this time around.
The Wisconsin National Guard says 150 troops with the 1st Battalion, 128th Infantry returned home yesterday. Because of coronavirus restrictions, the troops’ families were not allowed to meet them at the airfield. The soldiers from Eau Claire, Abbotsford, Menomonie, New Richmond, Rice Lake, Arcadia, Onalaska, and River Falls all deployed to Afghanistan last July.
