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1st AD takes a giant step toward home

...“It’s Fourth of July — Independence Day,” said Staff Sgt. Renaldo Valentin-Rivera of San Sebastian, Puerto Rico. “They chose a nice day for us to close out this deployment.”...

Sunday’s casing of colors, a ceremony in which the division’s flags are put away to signal its departure from the battlefield, was another step in the trip home. The colors will be uncased when the troops are back in Germany.