Soldiers of the Kansas Army National Guard’s 891st Engineer Battalion, headquartered in Iola, will not go to Africa next spring.
According to a news release, the National Guard Bureau informed Maj. Gen. Lee Tafanelli, Kansas adjutant general, that due to changing mission requirements deployment of the 891st Engineer Battalion to West Africa has been canceled.
“Our soldiers were willing to go,” said Tafanelli, “but it’s a fact of military life that missions can and do change. The Department of Defense reduced the mission…
891st deployment to Africa called off
