Pfc. Christopher G. Abe

Army Pfc. Christopher G. Abe has returned to Fort Richardson, Anchorage, Alaska after being deployed to Afghanistan for one year. The soldier is one of 3,500 members of the 4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division stationed at Fort Richardson. Airborne combat team members included soldiers assigned to one of six battalions and regiments of the 25th Infantry Division.

The airborne brigade served in three eastern provinces of Afghanistan, which included the Paktya, Paktika and Khost. Some of the challenges the brigade soldiers faced included poverty, unemployment, security, and management of natural resources and government institutions. Soldiers improved roads, provided vocational training in construction and civics, improved and re-opened 29 schools, remodeled six medical clinics and improved three district courthouses.

Abe is a light wheeled mechanic assigned to Headquarters, 4th Battalion, 25th Brigade Special Troops Battalion. He has served in the military for four years.

He is the son of George Abe of Rio Rancho, N.M., and nephew of Denise Billy of Tuba City.

The soldier graduated in 2000 from Tuba City High School, and received an associate degree in 2003 from the Arizona Automotive Institute, Glendale.

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