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Southington · SouthingtonIn 2009, then-Lt. Col. Francis Evon led a battalion of teachers, tradesmen, and first responders into the mountains of Afghanistan. Though infantrymen while in uniform, the soldiers of the Connecticut Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 102nd Infantry Regiment, leaned as heavily on their civilian experience as their combat training. “I saw guardsmen who were teachers from our schools use their interpersonal skills that they use in the classroom…Read Article
