When Sean Linn joined the National Guard 24 years ago, there was little thought to ever serving overseas.
“We were still in the Cold War,” said Linn, now a captain in the National Guard’s 891st Engineer Battalion.
Any overseas trips were dedicated almost universally for training.
“We went a few times to Central America,” he said.
Any overseas deployment would certainly have been in a European theater, Linn surmised.
But guardsmen served, by and large, with the notion that any active service would be done in response to local…
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