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Saying Goodbye
By BDN Staff
BDN Staff
BANGOR DAILY NEWS PHOTO BY JOHN CLARKE RUSS
Gayle Nelson hugs her husband, Master Sgt. Kent Nelson, shortly before he and other members of the Maine Air National Guard 101st Air Refueling Wing Civil Engineering Squadron departed Thursday morning, July 2, 2009 from Bangor International Airport for a six-month deloyment to Iraq. The Nelsons live in Litchfield, Maine. In the foreground Staff Sgt. Patrick Skall of Orono embraces his girlfriend Erin Chouinard of Westbrook. Buy Photo

On Thursday morning, more than 40 members of the Maine Air National Guard were deployed to Iraq.

Lieutenant Colonel David Vashon, Commander of the 101st Civil Engineering Squadron, was the first to begin the process.

"We have had many people volunteer to deploy in the past," Vashon said in a press release, "but this is the first time our unit has been mobilized as a whole."

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