AUGUSTA (AP) – Maine is marking National Guard Appreciation Day.

At the State House, Gov. John Baldacci plans to participate in a video teleconference with Lt. Col. Diane Dunn in Afghanistan.

Dunn is commander of the recently deployed 286th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion. She is the first woman to command a Maine Army Guard unit headed to Iraq or Afghanistan.


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