250 JBLM soldiers returning from Afghanistan

Published On: Feb 19 2013 03:14:53 PM PST
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. -

About 250 military intelligence soldiers are returning to Joint Base Lewis-McChord after a nine-month deployment in Afghanistan.

The Army says members of the 502nd Military Intelligence Battalion are due on base at 3 a.m. Wednesday.

First Lt. Filberto Martinez says they were deployed throughout Afghanistan, collecting information. He says no soldiers in the unit were killed in action. One died of self-inflicted wounds.

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