'Fearless Five' return from Iraq duty

Spc. Samuel LaGoy of Milo is greeted by siblings and other family after arriving at the Army Aviation Support Facility in Bangor. LaGoy and fellow members of the G-126th Aviation Unit returned to Bangor on Friday after being deployed to Mosul and Tal Afar in Iraq for 12 months.

BANGOR - Tootie Labree, mother of one of "The Fearless Five," stood Friday on the tarmac waiting for the arrival of her son who has served in Iraq for a year.

Maine National Guard Spc. Kenneth Labree II, 20, and four others from Maine, spent the last year providing aviation maintenance and logistical support to UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters in northern Iraq as part of the G-126th Aviation Unit.

Tootie Labree had T-shirts made using a photo of her son and the others, dubbed The Fearless Five, at Fort Dix, N.J. where they attended two months of training last year.

"My son has known since he was 9 years old," Labree, of South Paris, said of her son's desire to serve his country. "He's lived and breathed it."

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