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Maine soldiers to return tomorrow

By Portland Press Herald Staff Report December 31, 2008 04:54 PM

A welcome ceremony will be held at 3:30 a.m. tomorrow for members of Charlie Company 1-126th Aviation Regiment, Maine Army National Guard, at the Army Aviation Support Facility in Bangor.

The regiment completed a one-year deployment in Iraq, flying more than 3,000 hours and evacuating more than 670 patients.

The unit will arrive by commercial flight from Fort Carson, Colo. It was the unit's second deployment to Iraq.