PEA RIDGE — Army Sgt. Timothy R.Ingram has returned to Fort Richardson, Anchorage, Alaska, after being deployed to Afghanistan for one year. Ingram 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 reopened 29 schools, remodeled six medical clinics and improved three district courthouses.

Ingram has served in the military for five years.

He is regularly assigned to the 425th Brigade Special Troops Battalion.

Ingram is the son of Donna K. and John R. Nessmith of Pea Ridge and graduated from Pea Ridge High School in 2001.

School, Pages 9 on 03/24/2010