AIS 0515 - Dark Thirty, proceed
swiftly through the darkness to the main staging point to accomplish
our mission, To Welcome Home/Escort the Kansas 635th RSG.
Chapter Officers & contacts
; attached the FINAL itinerary for the 635th Escort . There are many ALR
Brothers that are part of this Unit. " Thanks For What You Do" Bronco 6
The
635th RSG will be returning on Friday June 29th at 0625 to the Wichita
Airport by charter airline. They will be coming through the terminal
and getting their baggage at baggage claim. They will be boarding
commercial busses in the taxi lane outside baggage claim.
We
will stage west of the main terminal building at 0545, Ride briefing
at 0600. (take the air cargo exit). We will flag up at this point and
escort them to The Village Inn just east of Central and Ridge for
breakfast, and flag down at this point. The Village Inn may or may not
have the capacity to feed us. We will depart at approximately 0900 for
Hutchinson and make a short stop at Eaton to flag up, then continue to
the Armory. The arrival ceremony starts at 1030, top brass does not
want them there until 1015.
We
will have an Avenue of Flags at the Armory. If you are in a cage or
do not make the entire ride please go to the Armory (11th Street and
Severance) and participate in the Avenue of Flags. DO NOT attempt to
join at Eaton. There will not be enough time to work you into the
procession. If you can not flag up in three minutes do not attempt to
flag up, ride with the non-flagged bikes. I gave Captain Bailey my
word that this would not take over five minutes. We do not want to
delay these soldiers any more than necessary.
Hutchinson riders will stage at the Sports Arena east parking lot at
0445 AIS 0500. If it is raining/wet 15 minutes earlier. Judy (Pudge)
will be at the Armory by 0930 to distribute the flags.
Bruce
Branson - Director - American Legion Riders Post 68
Troops at war need to know America stands behind them and behind the
cause for which they are risking their lives - freedom. The privations
of war
and threats of enemy attack are strenuous enough without home-front
protests
that symbolically impugn both the war and the warrior.
"(The American antiwar movement) was essential to
our strategy. Every day our leadership would listen
to world news over the radio at 9 a.m. to follow the
growth of the American antiwar movement.
America lost because of its democracy; through dissent
and protest it lost the ability to mobilize a will to win."
- Col. Bui Tin, North Vietnamese Army.
Approximately 80 Soldiers of
the 635th Regional Support Group, Kansas National
Guard, will return to
Kansas on Friday, June 29, after a year long
deployment to
Kuwait. They
will be honored during a welcome home ceremony at 10:30 a.m.
at the Hutchinson Armory,
1111 N Severance St.,
Hutchinson.
“We know the soldiers and
their families have been anticipating this day for a long
time, and we’re excited to see these fine men and women
returning to
Kansas so they
can get some much deserved rest,” said Maj. Gen. Tod Bunting,
Kansas adjutant general. “They have served
their country well.”
The mission of the 635th RSG
was to provide
logistics operations support for
maintenance, transportation, supplies, equipment and manpower
in its operational theater.