After more than a year abroad serving his county, Lieutenant Colonel Neil Murphy returned home to Garden City Tuesday following his tour of duty in Afghanistan.
Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano and Nassau County Veterans Services Agency Director Joseph Pascarella were both on hand to welcome home Murphy, who spent 13 months of service in Afghanistan's Helmand Province.
"I thank Lieutenant Colonel Murphy for his service to our country during not only his most recent tour in Afghanistan but also for his two other tours in Iraq," Mangano said. "I am pleased and honored to welcome him safely back home to Nassau County."
Murphy's service in Afghanistan was spent with II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) as the Military Assistant to the Commanding General, Regional Command Southwest at Camp Leatherneck.
Prior to his time in Afghanistan, Murphy was deployed twice to Iraq. During "Operation Iraqi Freedom" in 2003, he served with I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) on the initial invasion and again in Fallujah with II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) in 2005-06.? ?
The Murphy Family, which includes Murphy's wife Alicia, their 14-year-old son Jacob and 10-year-old daughter Shaelin, have lived in Garden City for more than two years.
The family lives in one of 18 homes at Mitchel Field that has been reserved for active-duty military personnel. The county took ownership of the property on April 1, 2011, from the United States Navy and began the process of renovating the homes and locating veterans and their families to occupy the homes, which are two-story, three-bedroom duplex units.
The county works with local military bases as well as the Automated Housing Referral Network (AHRN), the official housing referral system used by military housing offices, in order to locate occupants for these homes.
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