There was an emotional send off for members of the Texas Army National Guard Thursday.
's mayor was on hand, along with hundreds of other people to send off a unit that's deploying to Europe on a NATO mission.
Parker was among hundreds gathered at Dickies Arena for a huge send off for the 56th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, which is deploying to support NATO allies in a peace-keeping mission in Kosovo.Russia’s military has acknowledged that a bomb accidentally dropped by one of its warplanes caused a powerful blast in a Russian city about 25 miles east of the Russia-Ukraine border.
Most recently, visible efforts by these service men and women included their work at food distribution events and vaccine sites throughout the pandemic.
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