Iraq veteran set to help
The Leader-Herald/Richard Nilsen
Greg Gage takes his helmet from his aunt, Chief Barbara DeLuca, as he reactivates his duty with the Caroga Lake Volunteer Fire Department Monday after being on active duty in the military in Iraq.
A Caroga Lake man returned from active duty in Iraq and was active in the local fire department that same week.
When volunteer firefighter Greg Gage, 24, got back in town from active duty in Iraq May 4, he came to the weekly fire department meeting May 5 and was out fighting a forest fire behind Green Lake May 7. “I was on a 10 month tour of duty in Iraq that got extended four month,” Gage said. “I was in the 177th Cavalry Striker Brigade in the infantry. We were stationed in Anwar Province near Syria and then Baghdad.
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