JACKSON, Miss. - Twenty soldiers/airmen of the Mississippi National Guard (MSNG) completed their Hurricane Ian emergency aftermath response mission in Florida on Oct. 6. The guardsmen left Mississippi Sept. 29 for a week-long deployment in support of the Florida National Guard, Florida Division of Emergency Management, and local civil and emergency response personnel in the Fort Myers vicinity. Eleven Mississippi Army National Guard Soldiers from Company B, 1st Battalion, 111th Aviation Regiment, based in Meridian, used two CH-47 Chinook helicopters to provide heavy helicopter support to the Florida National Guard Aviation teams. Company B completed more than 37 flight hours, transported nearly 250 passengers, and moved more than 102,000 pounds of cargo in just five days of operations. Members of the Mississippi Air National Guard’s 255th Air Control Squadron (ACS), based in Gulfport, also deployed to provide technical communication support to local emergency services and military organizations from their tactical operations center in Lehigh Acres, Fla. (WJTV 10/06/22) Mississippi National Guard returns home after Ian response (wjtv.com)
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