Maine Air Guard wing departs for Iraq

Posted July 02, 2009, at 3:14 p.m.

BANGOR, Maine – Gayle Nelson hugs her husband, Master Sgt. Kent Nelson, shortly before he and other members of the Maine Air National Guard 101st Air Refueling Wing Civil Engineering Squadron departed Thursday morning, July 2, 2009 from Bangor International Airport for a six-month deployment to Iraq. The Nelsons live in Litchfield, Maine.

In the foreground Staff Sgt. Patrick Skall of Orono embraces his girlfriend Erin Chouinard of Westbrook.