Politics & Government

SC National Guard Unit Returns From Afghanistan

The 133rd Military Police Company, which lost three soldiers in June, returned to Florence Sunday.

FLORENCE — A cheering crowd welcomed home members of the 133rd Military Police Company Sunday at Veterans Park in Florence.

The S.C. National Guard unit deployed 170 soldiers to Afghanistan in November 2011. Seven months later, the unit lost three men in a suicide bomb attack, route: {:controller=>"articles", :action=>"show", :id=>"identity-of-second-columbia-guardsman-killed-in-afghanistan-released"} -->. , were from Lexington.


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