Aaron Lloyd, 2, grasps his father, Staff Sgt. Benjamin Lloyd, 663rd Ordnance Company, 242nd Explosive Ordnance Disposal Battalion, 71st Ordnance Group (EOD), March 5, 2011, inside the Special Events Center Saturday, after returning home from a one-year deployment to Iraq. The Soldiers initially participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom, which transitioned to Operation New Dawn in September, marking the end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq.
The Army bomb squads discovered and disarmed more than 100 improvised explosive devices while covering 60,000 square miles of terrain in Iraq’s four southern provinces, said Capt. Caleb Lewis, commander of 663rd Ord. Lewis proudly stated that nobody under his command suffered serious injuries in Iraq.
© 2012 Dustin Senger.
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