242nd Engineer Detachment Heading to Afghanistan

The Connecticut Army National Guard has mobilized the 242nd Engineer Detachment (Construction Management Team) to deploy in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. The unit is now training at Fort Bliss, Texas and then will move on to Afghanistan to serve as a part of an engineer task force that is deconstructing and consolidating coalition bases as part of the retrograde process. Read more in "National Guard unit heads to Afghanistan", The Day, February 6, 2014.