More Minnesotans head for Afghanistan

Just three weeks after President Barack Obama said all troops would be out of Afghanistan by 2014, friends and family said goodbye to members to 124 members of the 257th Military Police Company in Monticello Wednesday.
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Just three weeks after President Barack Obama said all troops would be out of Afghanistan by 2014, friends and family said goodbye to 124 members of the 257th Military Police Company in Monticello Wednesday. Many of the Minnesota soldiers and their families were skeptical that all U.S. troops would be out of the country in 2 years.

WCCO talked with soldiers and their families at the ceremony ...

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