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There are currently 650 Connecticut soldiers stationed overseas.
By December that number will dip below 100 soldiers, Gen. Thad Martin of the Connecticut Millitary Department told legislators last week on the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee.
The number of Connecticut National Guard soldiers has steadily declined since the drawback in Iraq and Afghanistan. Two years ago, there were 1,300 troops stationed overseas, Martin said.
Jacqueline was CT Mirror’s Education and Housing Reporter, and an original member of the CT Mirror staff, joining shortly before our January 2010 launch. Her awards include the best-of-show Theodore A. Driscoll Investigative Award from the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists in 2019 for reporting on inadequate inmate health care, first-place for investigative reporting from the New England Newspaper and Press Association in 2020 for reporting on housing segregation, and two first-place awards from the National Education Writers Association in 2012. She was selected for a prestigious, year-long Propublica Local Reporting Network grant in 2019, exploring a range of affordable and low-income housing issues. Before joining CT Mirror, Jacqueline was a reporter, online editor and website developer for The Washington Post Co.’s Maryland newspaper chains. Jacqueline received an undergraduate degree in journalism from Bowling Green State University and a master’s in public policy from Trinity College.
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