The Birmingham Barons will be celebrating Military Appreciation Night Saturday, July 12th, when they take on the Carolina Mudcats.

According to the Patriot Guard Riders site, “the Birmingham Barons will be honoring those veterans who have served our country and soldiers who are presently active duty with a discounted $3.00 General Admission ticket.”

Sounds good to me!

For more information, you can call the Birmingham Barons at (205) 988-3200 or visit their website at www.barons.com.

Anyone interested in joining the Patriot Guard Riders in the infield should contact them at their website, www.patriotguard.org.

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Per the Patriot Guard Riders:

After a year in the sand box, the 1206th Transport Unit out of Opelika, Alabama will be making their return trip home June 13th, and have requested the PGR escort them home. The PGR proudly escorted this Unit to Ft. Bragg North Carolina, with escort through Georgia and then North Carolina took them into Ft Bragg. Please join us in welcoming home these true American Heroes that will once again be reunited with their loved ones and their community.

Coverage from Opelika-Auburn News:

The city of Opelika will hold a homecoming ceremony on June 13 to celebrate the return of the 206th Transportation Company Army reserve unit following a yearlong tour in Iraq.

The event will be held in front of the Veterans Memorial Monument at the Opelika City Hall at 204 S. 7th St. and is open to the public.

The celebration will begin after the troops arrive in town on buses, which is expected to be between 8 and 8:30 p.m., Opelika Community Relations Specialist Jan Gunter said.

Welcome home, heroes!!

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I saw in the Patriot Guard Riders forums that another Alabama soldier is returning home, sometime today.

Welcome home, SFC Morris Lowery!!!

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Courtesy of the Patriot Guard Riders, the 1203rd guard unit from Dothan will be coming home this Sunday, June 8th. Details are currently not available, but if you want to participate, please contact your local PGR captain.

UPDATE: 06/04/2008 — This has also been covered on the WVTY News 4 site:

A National Guard unit from Dothan could return home this weekend after nearly nine months in Iraq.

170 members of the 1203rd Engineer Battalion’s headquarters company was scheduled to return this week to Fort McCoy, Wisconsin.

After a few days at Fort McCoy, the unit should head home to Dothan and could arrive this Sunday.

The 1203rd’s mission overseas included road-side bomb patrols, helping communities erect security barriers and working with Iraqi soldiers to repair bomb-damaged roads.

UPDATE: 06/06/2008 — The Birmingham News also chimes in:

The Alabama Army National Guard’s Headquarters Company, 1203rd Engineer Battalion, is scheduled to return to its armory in Dothan on Sunday afternoon.

The unit, which has about 170 soldiers, was in Iraq for about nine months, based at Logistics Support Area Anaconda near the city of Balad. It has spent several days at Fort McCoy, Wis., where it trained before deploying.

While at Anaconda, the 1203rd headquarters company had about 900 additional soldiers and airmen under its command. Its mission in Iraq included roadside bomb patrols, helping nearby communities erect security barriers, and working with Iraqi soldiers to repair bomb-damaged roads.

Welcome home, heroes!!!

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