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A Texas-based Patriot missile air defense unit dispatched to Poland to bolster defenses on NATO’s eastern flank will have its deployment extended three months, the Army said this week. The 1st Battalion, 62nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment’s mission will now last until around June. Its deployment to Poland began in October as part of efforts to enhance European defenses in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. “Being away from family is hard, but I have really grown to my platoon being my family,” Staff Sgt. Zachary Nanninga, a platoon sergeant in the unit based at Fort Cavazos, said in a statement Wednesday from the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command.

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