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Colorado helicopter unit deploys to Afghanistan

Posted at 11:21 AM, Jan 02, 2019
and last updated 2019-01-02 13:21:55-05

AURORA – Roughly 50-members of a helicopter unit based at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora are deploying to Afghanistan Wednesday.

Their mission supports Operation Freedom’s Sentinel and is expected to last a year. A send-off ceremony took place at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum in Denver Wednesday morning.