Soldiers with the 724th Engineer Battalion of the Wisconsin National Guard have traded in their rifles for chainsaws and their bomb detection equipment for wood chippers.As Rich Kremer reports they’ve transitioned from clearing Iraqi roadways of IED’s to clearing hundreds of miles of downed timber from roadsides in northwestern Wisconsin.
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