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Army Pfc. Mineer returns to Fort Richardson

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Army Pfc. Adam K. Mineer has returned to Fort Richardson, Anchorage, Alaska after being deployed to Afghanistan for one year.  The soldier is one of 3,500 members of the 4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division stationed at Fort Richardson.  Airborne combat team members included soldiers assigned to one of six battalions and regiments of the 25th Infantry Division.
    The airborne brigade served in three eastern provinces of Afghanistan, which included the Paktya, Paktika and Khost.  Some of the challenges the brigade soldiers faced included poverty, unemployment, security, and management of natural resources and government institutions.  Soldiers improved roads, provided vocational training in construction and civics, improved and re-opened 29 schools, remodeled six medical clinics and improved three district courthouses.
    Mineer is a heavy construction equipment operator with one year of military service.
    He is the son of Lois M. Beard of State Route 251, Lynchburg, Ohio.
    The private is a 2006 graduate of Fayetteville-Perry High School, Fayetteville.
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