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Kentucky's Workhorse Battalion Puts Skill to Work for Special Needs Kids in Mississippi

More than 300 soldiers from 201st Engineer Battalion of the Kentucky National Guard were charmed by a little girl, nourished by a chef and his friends and inspired by the dream brought them and thousands of other Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine guard and reserve to Mississippi over that past three years to build Camp Kamassa, a massive 326-acre summer camp just west of Crystal Springs for kids and others with special needs. Here's the story of the Kentucky Workhouse Battalion and Camp Kamassa: https://fb.watch/5D_ZiY-T3w/

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River and rail traffic on and beneath the Old Mississippi River Bridge at Vicksburg comes to a halt as a giant Sikorsky helicopter removes and replaces a massive flagpole atop its steel superstructure.