C000703

Round shaped, silver colored coin, 2 inches in diameter.

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1st Squadron, 124th Armored Cavalry is organic to the 49th Armored Division (1999) with units in Waco, Corsicana, Athens and Austin. Troop E 1/124th Cav Regiment is an Air Cavalry troop with OH-58A/C aircraft.

TX National Guard Soldiers Return Home From Sinai Mission February 1, 2007

"The contingent of Soldiers returned home to the Lone Star State after having completed a year-long peacekeeping deployment to Egypt's Sinai Peninsula as part of the Multi-National Force and Observers (MFO-49) to observe and uphold the peace between Egypt and Israel."

"The MFO is an international peacekeeping force that was created as a result of the 1978 Camp David Accords and the 1979 Treaty of Peace between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Israel. The mission of the MFO is to observe, verify and report violations of the treaty's security provisions from four zones along the Sinai Peninsula. Since 1982, various nations have contributed military and civilian personnel to serve in the Sinai, which that is currently America's longest peacekeeping mission."