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A Wisconsin National Guard engineer company will deploy this fall to Afghanistan to conduct route clearance missions.

About 95 members of Superior-based 950th Engineer Co. will deploy soon to look for improvised explosive devices on major supply routes in eastern Afghanistan. The unit will be in the country during the anticipated transition from Operation Enduring Freedom to the NATO-led Operation Resolute Support as U.S. and coalition combat operations shut down by the end of the year.

The 950th's route clearance operations will be critical as the U.S. moves troops and equipment out of Afghanistan. It will be the first deployment to Afghanistan for the 950th Engineer Co., which has a detachment in Spooner.

The unit deployed to Iraq in 2003 and 2010.