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March 20, 2023

The Nebraska National Guard’s Camp Ashland training site is officially open again after the facility flooded in March 2019, the Omaha World-Herald reported. “This facility is about resilience,” Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) said at a Friday ceremony. “This ribbon-cutting today represents that grit, that resilience that Nebraskans have, to build back better.”

2019 Nebraska National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Herschel Talley

March 20, 2023

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